Parliamentary Elections Returning Officers Expenses (Scotland) Act 1878
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1878 c. 41 |
| Year | 1878 |
Parliamentary Elections Returning Officers Expenses (Scotland) Act, 1878
(41 & 42 Vict.) CHAPTER 41.
An Act to enable Returning Officers at Parliamentary Elections in Scotland to require Security for their Expenses; and otherwise to amend the Law of Scotland relating to such Expenses.
[8th August 1878]
W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the expenses and charges of returning officers at parliamentary elections in Scotland, and otherwise to amend the law of Scotland relating to such expenses:
Be 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:
1 Short title and construction of Act.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theParliamentary Elections Returning Officers Expenses (Scotland) Act, 1878, and the Ballot Act, 1872, as modified by this Act, and this Act shall be construed as one Act.
2 Extent of Act.
2. This Act shall extend to Scotland only, and only to parliamentary elections.
3 Returning officer may require deposit or security.
3. The returning officer, if he think fit, may, as herein-after provided, require security to be given for the charges which may become payable under the provisions of any Act of Parliament in respect of any election.
The total amount of the security which may be required in respect of all the candidates at an election shall not in any case exceed the sums prescribed in the Schedule to this Act.
Where security is required by the returning officer it shall be apportioned and given as follows; viz.,
(1) (1.) At the end of the two hours appointed for the election the returning officer shall forthwith declare the number of the candidates who then stand nominated, and shall, if there be more candidates nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, apportion equally among them the total amount of the required security:
(2) (2.) Within one hour after the end of the two hours aforesaid, security shall be given by or in respect of each candidate then standing nominated, for the amount so apportioned to him:
(3) (3.) If in the case of any candidate security is not given or tendered as herein mentioned, he shall be deemed to be withdrawn within the provisions of the Ballot Act, 1872 :
(4) (4.) A tender of security in respect of a candidate may be made by any...
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