The Scottish Independence Referendum (Chief Counting Officer and Counting Officer Charges and Expenses) Order 2015

the making and management of arrangements for the referendum, including the appointment and payment of persons to assist the Chief Counting Officer;

printing, producing and disseminating directions, guidance and forms to counting officers;

the collation of the result of the referendum for the whole of Scotland; and

communications relating to the referendum and its result.

the appointment and payment of persons to assist the counting officer;

travel and overnight subsistence for the counting officer and any person appointed to assist the counting officer;

printing or otherwise producing the ballot paper;

printing, producing or purchasing stationery to be used for or in connection with postal voting;

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;

printing or otherwise producing and, where appropriate, publishing notices, lists and any other documents required for, or in connection with, the referendum;

renting, heating, lighting, cleaning, adapting or restoring any building or room;

providing and transporting equipment;

providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;

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;

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);

providing and receiving training; and

providing stationery and meeting postage, telephone, printing, translation and banking costs and the costs of other miscellaneous items.