Returning Officers (Scotland) Act 1886
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1886 c. 58 |
| Year | 1886 |
Returning Officers (Scotland) Act, 1886
(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 58.
An Act to regulate the Expenses and to control the Charges of Returning Officers at Parliamentary Elections in Scotland.
[25th June 1886]
W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the expenses and charges of returning officers at parliamentary elections in Scotland:
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.
1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Ballot Act, 1872, the Parliamentary Elections Returning Officers Expenses (Scotland) Act, 1878, the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Act, 1885, and the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, and may be cited as theReturning Officers (Scotland) Act, 1886.
2 Application of Act.
2. This Act shall extend to Scotland only, and only to parliamentary elections, but shall not apply to an election for any university or combination of universities.
3 The accounts of a returning officer may be taxed.
3. The returning officer at an election shall, as soon as may be after an election has taken place, and within twenty-one days after the declaration of the poll (notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, or any other Act), transmit to the election agent of each candidate a detailed account showing the amounts of all the charges claimed by him in respect of the election, and the share thereof which he claims from the person to whom the account is transmitted, and he shall annex to the account a notice of the place where the vouchers relating to the account may be seen, and he shall at all reasonable times, and without charge, allow the election agent of any candidate to inspect and take copies of the vouchers.
The returning officer shall not be entitled to any charges which are not duly included in his account.
If the person from whom payment is claimed, objects to any part of the claim, he may, at any time within fourteen days from the time when the account is transmitted to him, make written application to the auditor of the court of session for a taxation of the account, and the auditor shall thereupon forthwith proceed to tax the account, and to issue a...
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