The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1898
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Credit: The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Expenses. 29.—(1) Any sum which may be payable to the Returning Officer in respect of his services in taking a poll in the Parish, or in respect of expenses incurred in relation to such poll, shall be defrayed by the Guardians of the Poor Law Union, and shall be charged to the Parish in their accounts. (2) Any other sum which may be payable to the Returning Officer in respect of his services in the conduct of the election, or in respect of expenses incurred in relation to the election, shall be defrayed by the Guardians, and shall be charged to the Parish, except that where any such sum shall be payable in respect of two or more Parishes the same shall be apportioned between them according to the number of Parochial electors registered in such Parishes respectively. (3) If polls for the election of Guardians and Urban District Councillors are taken together, one-half of any expenses which may be payable in respect of the two polls jointly, including the remuneration of any officers employed in the conduct thereof, shall be deemed to have been incurred in relation to the poll for the election of Guardians, and shall be defrayed accordingly. > The Urban District Councillors Election Order, 1898, Art. 28 (2) con- tains a provision in the same terms as that contained in Art. 29 (3) of the above Order, except that the words “ Urban District Councillors are substitute for the word “Guardians” wherever that word occurs, and the word “ Guardians ” is substituted for the words “ Urban District Councillors. Section 48 (4) of the Local Government Act, 1894, apphes to elect of Guardians the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 188., and the enactments amending the same, with respect to the expenses °f ele - tions of Councillors of a borough, subject however to the adaptations, altera- tions, and exceptions made by rules framed by the Local Government Board theBvnsuCbr'section 7 of Section 48 of the Local Government Act, 1894, itAs Z i that the expenses of any election under the Act shall not exceed the LaTo lixed^by the^County Council, and if at the beginning of one month before Orifrf 20, 1804, post. V ment Board declared that tho scale of expenses li Order shall, for the Imposes.of any elec «« ] 85, the Local Govern- the schedule to such the Local Government KE-l a corn,., borouoh in England and W.U.