S.I. No. 19/1952:

REGISTRATION EXPENSES SCALE, 1952.

REGISTRATION EXPENSES SCALE, 1952.

The Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (3) of section 12 of the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby frames the following scale of registration expenses :

1. This Scale may be cited as the Registration Expenses Scale, 1952.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Scale.

3. In this Scale--

" the Act " means the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923) ;

" elector " means a person whose name appears on the completed register and in respect of whose name all the appropriate duties of the officer concerned have been performed ;

" expenses " means expenses of all kinds, except the expenses of the printing of the lists and the register, incurred in the execution of any duty under the Act ;

" remuneration " means payment for the whole of the services which the officer concerned is liable to be required to perform and has performed under the Act.

4.--(1) Remuneration and expenses of a person holding the office of rate collector or performing duties which a rate collector may be required to perform by virtue of Rule 7 in the First Schedule to the Act :

(a) in urban districts, boroughs and county boroughs--

(b) in county health districts--

Where the registration officer is satisfied that the manner in which the person has carried out such duties justifies it, the appropriate rate may be increased by substituting " 2s. 4d. " for " 2s. 0d." or " 2s. 9d." for " 2s. 4d.," as the case may be.

(2) Remuneration and expenses of a person holding the office of a secretary of a county council, clerk of an urban district council or town clerk of a borough or a county borough :

(3) Where a registration unit is transferred from a county health district to an urban district, borough or county borough, or from an urban district, borough or county borough to a county health district during the period of preparation of an annual register of electors, the transfer shall, for the purpose of determining remuneration and expenses under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article, be deemed not to take place until after the register comes into force.

5.--(1) Expenses of registration officers :

a sum less by ten per cent. than the sum ascertained under the following scale, the number of electors where the same person acts as registration officer for both an administrative county and for a county borough being determined with reference to the whole area for which the registration officer acts--

for the first 25,000 electors in the registration area--

(2) Remuneration and expenses (payable out of the expenses mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Article) of a person holding the office of a town clerk of a county borough who has been appointed to perform and has performed the duties of a deputy registration officer for the purposes of rules 6 and 8 and 9 to 14 in the First Schedule to the Act :

(a) remuneration :

(b) expenses :

for the first 25,000 electors--

(3) Where, in consequence of the necessary appointment of a deputy registration officer, other than in pursuance of Rule 15 in the First Schedule to the Act, at an inclusive rate of remuneration and expenses not exceeding £3 3s. 0d. per day, and where such necessity did not arise out of the incapacity or absence of the registration officer, the amount of the out-of-pocket expenditure exceeds the maximum amount determined by or in accordance with this Scale, then the maximum amount of the registration expenses shall be the actual vouched out-of-pocket expenditure of the registration officer, not exceeding the maximum amount determined as aforesaid, plus a sum not exceeding £3 3s. 0d. for each day on which such deputy registration officer shal have necessarily acted.

(4) Where the same person acts as registration officer both for an administrative county and for a county borough, the expenses of such registration officer under this Scale shall be divided between the administrative county and the county borough in proportion to the number of electors in each area.

6. Remuneration and expenses of a person for the time being exercising the functions of a superintendent registrar of births and deaths as respects lists or information supplied by him on requisition of the registration officer :

7. The Scale of Registration Expenses framed by the Minister for Finance on the 21st day of February, 1924, the Registration Expenses Order, 1924 (Amendment) Order, 1948 ( S.I. No. 76 of 1948 ), and the Registration Expenses Order, 1924 (Amendment) Order, 1950 ( S.I. No. 91 of 1950 ), are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 21st day of January, 1952.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary, Department of Finance.