Article 6 Uncontested elections – constituency returning officers
Where, at a general election, the return of regional members or, as the case may be, the return of constituency members is uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts of a constituency returning officer in respect of–
the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and
the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule,
are hereby specified as the amounts which are the same as 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.
Where the return of a constituency member at a by-election is uncontested, or, as the case may be, where at a general election the return of regional members and the return of constituency members are both uncontested, the maximum recoverable amounts of a constituency returning officer are hereby specified as–
£428.77 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and
£1058.99 in respect of the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule.