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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-independence-referendum-chief-counting-officer-and-counting-officer-charges-and-expenses-order-2015/article-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/368",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Independence Referendum (Chief Counting Officer and Counting Officer Charges and Expenses) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-independence-referendum-chief-counting-officer-and-counting-officer-charges-and-expenses-order-2015",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Counting officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses",
  "text": "(1) The total of the expenses recoverable by a counting officer in respect of the specified expenses for the referendum cannot exceed the amount listed for each local government area in column 3 of the table in the Schedule to this Order.\n(2) The specified expenses are—\n(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the counting officer;\n(b) travel and overnight subsistence for the counting officer and any person appointed to assist the counting officer;\n(c) printing or otherwise producing the ballot paper;\n(d) printing, producing or purchasing stationery to be used for or in connection with postal voting;\n(e) printing or otherwise producing and arranging for the delivery of the poll cards required by rule 11 of schedule 3 to the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013;\n(f) printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices, lists and any other documents required for, or in connection with, the referendum;\n(g) renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;\n(h) providing and transporting equipment;\n(i) providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;\n(j) providing security, including any necessary storage of ballot boxes, ballot papers, postal voting statements and documents used to verify personal identifiers on postal voting statements;\n(k) conducting the verification of personal identifiers on postal voting statements and the count (including counting and recording the number of ballot papers, counting the votes and any recount);\n(l) providing and receiving training; and\n(m) providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/368/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:27:12.217455+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}