European Parliament Elections Act 1997
Further provisions regarding costs.
144. (1) Subject to paragraph (4), the costs and other expenses incurred on behalf of a returning officer or a local returning officer at the trial of a petition shall be paid out of the Central Fund.
(2) Costs awarded to the returning officer or a local returning officer at the trial of a petition shall be a simple contract debt due to the Minister for Finance and such debt, in default of being discharged, may be recovered by that Minister in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), costs awarded against the returning officer or a local returning officer at the trial of a petition shall be paid out of the Central Fund.
(4) Where the court is satisfied that the returning officer or a local returning officer has been grossly negligent in the discharge of the duties of the office, the court may order that the officer shall be personally liable for any costs awarded against the officer by the court.
(5) Where an order is made under paragraph (4) any costs awarded against the returning officer or local returning officer concerned which are paid out of the Central Fund shall be a simple contract debt due to the Minister for Finance by the officer, and may be recovered by that Minister in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred and references to Minister for Finance construed as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3 and sch. 1.
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —
(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and
(b) the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 2,
are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
Schedule 1
Enactments
Part 1
Pre 1922 Enactments
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No. 2 of 1997 |
Sections 13(A)(4), 18(3) and (4) and 20(7); Second Schedule, Part I, rule 9(4), Part XV, rules 134(5) and 144(2) and (5) |
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