S.I. No. 37/1925 - Regulations Relative to the Accounts of Constituency Returning Officers at Seanad Elections.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1925. No. 37.

REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE ACCOUNTS OF CONSTITUENCY RETURNING OFFICERS AT SEANAD ELECTIONS.

In pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by Sections 25 and 43 of the Electoral Act, 1923 , I, Earnan de Blaghd, the Minister for Finance of Saorstát Eireann, hereby make the following regulations as to the time when and manner and form in which accounts are to be rendered to me by Constituency Returning Officers for the purpose of the payment of their charges in respect of their services and disbursements at Seanad Elections held pursuant to the provisions of the Electoral Act, 1923 , as amended by the Constitution (Amendment No. 1) Act, 1925 , and the Electoral (Seanad Elections) Act, 1925 .

(1) Accounts should be submitted within a period of seven weeks from the date of the day on which the Seanad Election shall take place, and should be addressed to the Secretary, Department of Finance, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin.

(2) The accounts should be accompanied by a Declaration by the Returning Officer in the following terms:

"I declare that the accounts herewith submitted by me in respect of my services and disbursements are correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

"(Signed)............................................................ .............

"Constituency Returning Officer."

(3) Vouchers and receipts are to be submitted with the accounts in the case of disbursements which have been already settled by the Returning Officer. In cases where charges have not been settled the relevant bills or accounts should be sent.

(4) The accounts of Returning Officers should be submitted in such form as to show what are the items of expenditure and their total under each of the various headings specified in the scale of maximum charges of Constituency Returning Officers at Seanad Elections which has been or may hereafter be prescribed by me.

(5) In submitting the accounts due regard must be paid to any directions issued by the authority of the Minister for Finance to Returning Officers prescribing what particulars and information are to be furnished in support of claims for payment from the Exchequer.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance.