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Payment of returning officers’ expenses.
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32.—(1) The Minister for Finance shall prepare a scale of maximum charges for returning officers and every returning officer shall be paid by the said Minister out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof his reasonable charges, in respect of his services and expenses in relation to every Dáil election in respect of which he is the returning officer, not exceeding the maximum charges specified in the scale prepared under this section and applying for the time being.
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(2) For the purpose of the payment of such charges, an account of them shall be submitted by the returning officer to the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Finance may issue to returning officers directions as to the time when and the manner and form in which the accounts shall be submitted to him.
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(3) The Minister for Finance may, if he thinks fit, before payment of a returning officer's charges under this section apply to a judge of the Circuit Court having jurisdiction in any part of the constituency concerned for the taxation of the account submitted by the returning officer and such judge shall tax the account and determine the amount payable thereunder.
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(4) On the request of a returning officer for an advance on account of his charges the Minister for Finance may, if he thinks fit and on such terms as he thinks fit, make such an advance.
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(5) The taxation under this section of the account of a returning officer shall, if the judge aforesaid so decides on the application of the officer, include the determination of any claim made against the officer in respect of any matter charged for in the account.
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