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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 368

Representation Of The People

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

Made

29th October 2015

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

2nd November 2015

Coming into force

30th November 2015

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(3) and (4) of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Scottish Independence Referendum (Chief Counting Officer and Counting Officer Charges and Expenses) Order 2015 and comes into force on 30th November 2015.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the referendum” means the referendum on a question about the independence of Scotland provided for by the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013.

Chief Counting Officer: overall maximum recoverable amount

3.  The overall maximum amount recoverable by the Chief Counting Officer in respect of the referendum is £509,880.

Chief Counting Officer: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

4.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by the Chief Counting Officer in respect of the specified services for the referendum cannot exceed £25,000.

(2) The specified services are making arrangements for the referendum and discharging the Chief Counting Officer’s duties at the referendum.

Chief Counting Officer: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

5.—(1) The total of the expenses recoverable by the Chief Counting Officer in respect of the specified expenses for the referendum cannot exceed £484,880.

(2) The specified expenses are costs associated with—

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

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

(c)the collation of the result of the referendum for the whole of Scotland; and

(d)communications relating to the referendum and its result.

Counting officers: overall maximum recoverable amount

6.  The overall maximum amount recoverable by a counting officer in respect of the referendum for each local government area is the amount listed in column 4 of the table in the Schedule to this Order.

Counting officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified services

7.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a counting officer in respect of the specified services for the referendum cannot exceed the amount listed for each local government area in column 2 of the table in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) The specified services are making arrangements for and conducting the referendum, and discharging the counting officer’s duties at the referendum.

Counting officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

8.—(1) The total of the expenses recoverable by a counting officer in respect of the specified expenses for the referendum cannot exceed the amount listed for each local government area in column 3 of the table in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) The specified expenses are—

(a)the appointment and payment of persons to assist the counting officer;

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

(c)printing or otherwise producing the ballot paper;

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

(e)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;

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

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

(h)providing and transporting equipment;

(i)providing information and communications technology equipment and software and associated costs;

(j)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;

(k)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);

(l)providing and receiving training; and

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

Revocation

9.  The Scottish Independence Referendum (Chief Counting Officer and Counting Officer Charges and Expenses) Order 2014(2) is revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

29th October 2015

Articles 6, 7 and 8

SCHEDULECounting officers: maximum recoverable amounts

Column 1Column 2Column 3Column 4
Local government areaMaximum recoverable amount for specified servicesMaximum recoverable amount for specified expensesOverall maximum recoverable amount
£££
Aberdeen City8,267486,735495,002
Aberdeenshire9,521563,158572,679
Angus4,227241,554245,781
Argyll & Bute3,248266,975270,223
Clackmannanshire2,500111,199113,699
Dumfries & Galloway5,652370,593376,245
Dundee City5,212245,225250,437
East Ayrshire4,639253,520258,159
East Dunbartonshire3,965157,370161,335
East Lothian3,760174,711178,471
East Renfrewshire3,421177,239180,660
Edinburgh (City of)16,7771,156,0291,172,806
Eilean Siar2,50071,53974,039
Falkirk5,536282,985288,521
Fife13,789591,044604,833
Glasgow City22,6481,050,2731,072,921
Highland8,821498,934507,755
Inverclyde2,998161,488164,486
Midlothian3,135130,697133,832
Moray3,421177,123180,544
North Ayrshire5,283280,668285,951
North Lanarkshire11,957777,186789,143
Orkney Islands2,50050,10652,606
Perth & Kinross5,414288,103293,517
Renfrewshire6,369377,130383,499
Scottish Borders4,368267,710272,078
Shetland Islands2,50050,64053,140
South Ayrshire4,364254,289258,653
South Lanarkshire11,776581,162592,938
Stirling3,152150,224153,376
West Dunbartonshire3,261156,437159,698
West Lothian6,297292,914299,211

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for payments for charges and expenses of the Chief Counting Officer and counting officers in connection with the referendum on Scottish independence held on 18th September 2014 under the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013. Under section 9 of that Act the Chief Counting Officer and counting officers are entitled to recover from the Scottish Ministers the charges and expenses they incurred in exercising their functions, provided the amounts sought do not exceed such maximum amounts as are specified in this Order.

Maximum amounts were specified by the Scottish Independence Referendum (Chief Counting Officer and Counting Officer Charges and Expenses) Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”), which came into force on 5th May 2014. Article 9 of this Order revokes the 2014 Order, and instead the amounts specified in this Order will be the maximum recoverable amounts.

Articles 3 to 5 make provision in relation to the Chief Counting Officer. The maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses in article 5 has increased from the amount in the 2014 Order, by £159,880, with a consequential increase in the overall maximum recoverable amount specified in article 3. The maximum recoverable amount for specified services, in article 4, is unchanged from that in the 2014 Order.

Articles 6 to 8 and the Schedule make similar provision in relation to counting officers. In most cases there are increases in the maximum recoverable amounts for specified expenses in column 3 of the table in the schedule, though for four local government areas the amounts have reduced. The maximum recoverable amounts for specified services in column 2 of the schedule are unchanged from those in the 2014 Order.

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