The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Local Returning Officers’ and Police Area Returning Officers’ Charges) Order 2016

Police area returning officers: maximum recoverable amount for specified expenses

8.—(1) The total of the charges recoverable by a police area returning officer in respect of the expenses specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) must not exceed the corresponding amount listed for each police area in column 3 of the table in Schedule 7.

(2) The expenses specified in this paragraph are those incurred in—

(a) the appointment and payment of persons to assist the police area returning officer;

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

(c) discharging the police area returning officer’s functions in relation to the nomination process;

(d) obtaining legal advice or any translations required in connection with candidates’ election addresses;

(e) printing or otherwise producing the ballot paper;

(f) printing or otherwise producing, and where appropriate publishing, notices required by an enactment for or in connection with the police and crime commissioner election;

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

(h) providing and transporting equipment;

(i) providing security;

(j) conducting the verification of ballot paper accounts and the count;

(k) providing and receiving training;

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

(3) The expenses specified in this paragraph are those incurred in discharging the police area returning officer’s functions under regulation 7 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012 (encouraging participation in a police and crime commissioner election)(1).

(1)

S.I. 2012/1918.