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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 23

Remuneration and expenses of Chief Electoral Officer and other persons at local election.

23.[(1) The expenses of the Chief Electoral Officer as returning officer at a
local election, the expenses and remuneration of a deputy returning officer at
such an election and the remuneration payable to persons employed in
connection with such an election shall not exceed the amounts provided by a
scale framed by the Ministry and approved by the Ministry of Finance.]

Subs.(2) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.18 sch.3

(3) All expenses properly incurred in relation to the holding of a
local election [held on or after [1st October 1973]] shall be paid by the
local authority concerned, [and all expenses properly incurred in relation to
the holding of an election to a district council prior to [1st October 1973]
shall be paid out of moneys hereafter appropriated for the purpose of meeting
such expenses and shall at such time after [1st October 1973] as the Ministry
may determine be repaid by the council to the Exchequer to such extent (if
any) as the Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance determines].

(4) On the request of a returning officer for an advance on account of his
election expenses at a local election, the local authority by which such
expenses are to be paid may make such an advance on such terms as it thinks
fit.

Subs.(5) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.18 sch.3

(6) All costs properly incurred by a returning officer in the institution of
legal proceedings arising out of a local election shall be deemed to form part
of the expenses properly incurred by him in relation to the holding of the
election.

(7) Within three months from the declaration of the result of an election to
any local authority the returning officer shall submit to that local authority
a detailed account of the expenses incurred by him in the conduct of that
election supported by vouchers for the payments set out therein; and no sum
which is not so supported may lawfully be paid out of any rate or fund
adminstered by that local authority.

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