ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 21 Expenses of registration.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 21

Expenses of registration.

21.Subs.(1) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.18 sch.3; subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1980;
subs.(3) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.18 sch.3; subs.(4) rep. by 1971 c.4 (NI)
s.5(3) sch.; 1972 NI13 art.18 sch.3

(5) The Ministry with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance shall
prescribe a scale of registration expenses applicable to any or every class of
those expenses; and any expenses of a class to which the scale is applicable
incurred by an electoral officer

(a)if not exceeding the maximum amount determined by or in accordance with
such scale shall be taken to have been properly incurred; and

(b)if exceeding that maximum amount shall to the amount of such excess be
taken not to have been properly incurred unless the sanction (whether prior or
not) of the Ministry is, with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance,
specially given for such excess.

(6) Nothing in subsection (5) shall be construed as entitling an electoral
officer to receive any payment in excess of the expenses actually incurred by
him, except his proper and reasonable charges for his own personal
remuneration.

Subs.(7) rep. by 1971 c.4 (NI) s.5(3) sch.

(8) [The Chief Electoral Officer] shall furnish to the Ministry in such form
and at such time as may be required by the Ministry an account of all expenses
incurred by him in connection with a register.

[(9) All expenses properly incurred in connection with the registration of
electors shall be paid out of moneys hereafter appropriated for the purpose of
meeting such expenses and each district council shall pay into the Exchequer
such proportion (if any) of those expenses as the Ministry, with the
concurrence of the Ministry of Finance, may by regulations subject to
affirmative resolution, prescribe.

(10) Any sums payable by a district council under subsection (9) shall be paid
in such manner and at such times as regulations under that subsection
prescribe and may be recovered from the council by the Ministry as a debt due
to it.]

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