Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1687
The Returning Officers' Charges Order 1991
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1991 No. 1687
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
The Returning Officers' Charges Order 1991
| Coming into force | 26th July 1991 |
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983[1], hereby make the following Order:—
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Returning Officers' Charges Order 1991 and shall come into force on 26th July 1991.
(2) This Order extends to Great Britain only.
2. (1) Services and expenses of a kind set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (which provides that a returning officer is entitled to recover his charges in respect of services properly rendered, or expenses properly incurred, for or in connection with a parliamentary election if the services or expenses are of a kind so specified and the charges are reasonable).
(2) Maximum recoverable amounts are hereby specified in the right-hand column of Parts A and B of the Schedule to this Order in respect of services or expenses of the descriptions specified opposite thereto in the left-hand column of those Parts.
Gregory Knight
Sydney Chapman
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
24th July 1991
Notes:[1] 1983 c. 2 ; section 29 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1991 (c. 11), section 1.
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