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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 22

Remuneration and expenses of returning officer at parliamentary election.

22.(1)... Save [as otherwise provided in this Act] an electoral officer or
other person performing the functions of returning officer at a
parliamentary election in any constituency... shall not give, pay, demand,
take or accept any fee, reward or gratutity whatsoever for or in relation to
any of such functions.

(2) Any expenses properly incurred by an electoral officer as returning
officer at a parliamentary election (in this Act referred to as "election
expenses") shall... be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

(3) The Ministry may on the request of [the Chief Electoral Officer or a
person to whom the duties of returning officer at a parliamentary election are
delegated] for an advance on account of his election expenses make such an
advance on such terms as it thinks fit.

(4) The Ministry with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance shall
prescribe a scale of election expenses; and the time at which and the manner
and form in which accounts of and claims for the payment of election expenses
are to be submitted to the Ministry shall be such as the Ministry shall
direct.

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