SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5Combination of polls: England
PART 1Provision about combination
General provisions
Cost of combined polls
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1
In section 36 of the 1983 Act (local authority elections), subsections (4), (5) and (6) apply—
a
as if a reference to a returning officer included a reference to a counting officer carrying out functions that, but for this Schedule, would be exercisable by a returning officer (“transferred functions”), and
b
as if, in relation to that counting officer, a reference to expenditure or expenses were to expenditure or expenses in respect of transferred functions.
2
In fixing a scale under subsection (4) or (5) of that section a local authority may include special provision in respect of expenditure incurred by a counting officer in carrying out transferred functions (including expenditure incurred in respect of the remuneration of presiding officers or clerks).