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Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act (1875) Amendment Act 1886

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1886 c. 57
Year1886


Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act (1875) Amendment Act, 1886

(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 57.

An Act to amend the provisions of the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875.

[25th June 1886]

B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Review of taxation.

1 Review of taxation.

1. The judge or officer by whom any account or claim is taxed or examined under the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1875 (herein called the ‘principal Act’), shall deliver to the returning officer, and to the other party to the taxation or examination, a certificate showing the items and amounts allowed or disallowed, with a copy of any order or judgment made thereon.

Either party may, within seven days of the delivery to him of such certificate, give notice in writing to the said judge or officer of intention to appeal, specifying in the notice the items and amounts in respect of which he intends to appeal.

The said judge or officer shall thereupon forthwith transmit to the prescribed taxing, officer of the superior court the said account or claim, with any vouchers relating thereto, the certificate and the notice of appeal, and such taxing officer shall forthwith proceed to review the taxation or examination in the usual manner, or in such manner as may be prescribed, and shall, if required, receive evidence in relation to the matters in dispute, and may confirm or vary the certificate, and direct by whom all or any part of the costs of review are to be paid, and shall return the certificate as confirmed or varied to the said judge or officer with any such direction, and effect shall be given to a certificate as so confirmed or varied, and to any such direction, as if the same had been a judgment of the court as defined in the principal Act.

Any taxation or review of taxation under this Act shall be subject to appeal to the superior...

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