The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 18th May 1999.

(2) This Order shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3) The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers' Charges) Order 1994(1) is hereby revoked.

2.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 29(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 as that provision applies in respect of returning officers at a European Parliamentary election by virtue of regulation 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999 (which, as so applied, 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 European Parliamentary election if the services or expenses are of a kind specified in an order made under that provision and the charges are reasonable)–

(a) services of the kind described in paragraphs 1(1) and 2(1) of Part A of the Schedule to this Order (hereafter referred to as “services specified in Part A of the Schedule”); and

(b) expenses of a kind described in paragraph 1(1) of Part B of the Schedule to this Order (hereafter referred to as “expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule”) and expenses of a kind described in Part C of the Schedule to this Order,

are hereby specified.

(2) The maximum recoverable amounts at a contested election in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule or the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule are hereby specified as the amounts set out in the right-hand column of those Parts in respect of each entry set out opposite thereto in the left-hand column of those Parts.

(3) The maximum recoverable amounts at an uncontested election are hereby specified as–

(a) £77.84 in respect of the services specified in Part A of the Schedule; and

(b) £192.68 in respect of the expenses specified in Part B of the Schedule.

(4) In the Schedule to this Order–

(a) “election” means a European Parliamentary election; and

(b) “the European Regulations” means the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999.

Kate Hoey

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

14th May 1999

We consent to this Order

J Dowd

Gordon Brown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

14th May 1999