Referendum (Local Returning Officers' Charges and Accounts) Regulations, 1968.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Referendum (Local Returning Officers' Charges and Accounts) Regulations, 1968.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations—
" electors " means, in relation to the ascertainment of the maximum sum payable to a local returning officer, the number of persons registered in the register of DÃ¡il electors for the constituency in respect of which he is the local returning officer;
" accounts " means the accounts of a local returning officer in respect of services and expenses which have been properly rendered or incurred by him for the purposes of or in connection with a referendum or, when the polls at two referenda are taken on the same day, for the purposes of or in connection with those referenda.
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paragraphs: The scale of maximum charges for the purposes of section 12 of the Referendum Act, 1942, as extended by section 64 of the Electoral Act, 1963 , and, in the case of the referenda in relation to the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1968, and the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1968, section 1 of the Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1968 , shall be the scale set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations.
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paragraphs: In case the polls at the referenda in relation to the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1968, and the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1968, are taken on the same day, the scale of maximum charges for the purposes of section 12 of the Referendum Act, 1942 (as extended by sections 64 and 91 of the Electoral Act, 1963 , and, in the case of those referenda, section 1 of the Referendum (Amendment) Act, 1968 ) and the said section 91 shall be the scale set out in the Second Schedule to these regulations.
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paragraphs: The accounts shall be rendered to the Minister for Finance within a period of six weeks from polling day by being addressed and sent to the Secretary, Department of Finance, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2.
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paragraphs: The accounts shall be accompanied by a declaration made and subscribed by the local returning officer rendering them and every such declaration shall be in the following form:
I declare that the accounts rendered by me in respect of my services and disbursements are correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
(Signed)__________________________
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paragraphs: In the case of disbursements which have been already settled, vouchers and receipts shall be submitted with the accounts and, in the case of charges which have not been settled, the relevant bills shall be submitted with the accounts.
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paragraphs: The accounts shall be prepared in such form as shows the items of expenditure and the total thereof under each of the various headings specified in the appropriate scale of maximum charges.
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paragraphs: In rendering the accounts due regard shall be had to any directions issued by the Minister for Finance to local returning officers with reference to the particulars and information to be furnished in support of claims for payment out of the Central Fund.
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paragraphs: Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken as authorising more than one charge in respect of a particular disbursement.
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paragraphs: The scale of maximum charges to be paid to local returning officers prescribed by the Referendum and Presidential Elections (Local Returning Officers' Charges and Accounts) Regulations, 1959 ( S.I. No. 81 of 1959 ), shall not apply to any referendum the poll at which is taken after the making of these Regulations.