Article 3 Regional returning officers

(1)

For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the 1983 Act as applied by article 18 of the 1999 Order–

(a)

the services of a regional returning officer in conducting the general election and discharging his duties;

(b)

the expenses of a regional returning officer in respect of the payment of persons employed in connection with the calculation of regional figures for the purposes of section 7 of the Scotland Act 1998 and the allocation of seats to registered political parties and individual candidates under section 7 of that Act;

(c)

the travelling and overnight subsistence expenses of–

(i)

the regional returning officer;

(ii)

any person placed at the regional returning officer’s disposal under article 15(2) of the 1999 Order;

(iii)

any clerical or other assistants employed by the regional returning officer;

(d)

the expenses of a regional returning officer in printing or otherwise producing the ballot papers;

(e)

the expenses of a regional returning officer in printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate publishing notices and other documents required by the 1999 Order;

(f)

the expenses of a regional returning officer in the provision of stationary and writing implements and in postage, telephone and bank charges and other miscellaneous items,

are hereby specified.

(2)

The maximum recoverable amounts by a regional returning officer at a contested election are hereby specified as–

(a)

£500 in respect of the services specified in paragraph (1)(a) above; and

(b)

£400 in respect of the expenses specified in paragraph (1)(b) above.