Article 3 Constituency returning officers

(1)

For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the 1983 Act as applied and modified by article 19 of the 2002 Order–

(a)

the services of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in Part A of the Schedule (hereafter referred to as “services specified in Part A of the Schedule”);

(b)

the expenses of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in paragraphs 1(1), 2(1), 3(1) and 4 of Part B of the Schedule (hereafter referred to as “expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule”); and

(c)

the expenses of a constituency returning officer which are of a kind described in Part C of the Schedule,

are hereby specified.

(2)

The maximum recoverable amounts of a constituency returning officer at a contested election in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule or the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule are hereby specified as–

(a)

in the case of a general election, the amounts set out in column 2 of those Parts; and

(b)

in the case of a by-election, the amounts set out in column 3 of those Parts,

in respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in column 1 of those Parts.