What are the duties of a Chief Returning Officer?

Answer 1

The Chief Returning Officer in government elections in the UK is usually the chief executive of your local authority. They have the ultimate legal responsibility for ensuring that elections are run in a fair and lawful manner.

In practice they will have a small specialist staff of Electoral Registration Officers who maintain the voting register and carry out the legal and administrative business of organising and counting elections.

Answer 2

There isn't actually a Chief Returning Officer, just a Returning Officer. They are usually the Mayor, Chairman or Chief Executive of the local council. Their job is to implement the current electoral law, and to ensure the smooth running of elections. They are the person who actually signs the Declaration of Result and has to deposit it with the Department for Constitutional Affairs before an election result is valid.

Answer 3

The Chief Returning Officer shall be appointed by Students' council. He shall serve from April 30 to the following May 1.

The duties of the Chief Returning Officer shall include:

a. overseeing the implementation of the Nominations of the Executive Committee and the Undergraduate Board of Governors Representative Bylaw, the Nominations and Election of Students’ Union Faculty Councillors Bylaw, and the Referenda and Plebiscites Bylaw;

b. such duties as may be required of the Chief Returning Officer under the Nominations and Election of the Executive Committee and the Undergraduate Board of Governors Representative Bylaw, the Nominations and Elections of Students’ Union Faculty Councillors Bylaw, and the Referenda and Plebiscites
Bylaw;

c. the submission to Students’ Council of a written report of activities and recommendations prior to April 30.

Answer 4

Overseeing local elections to ensure everything is carried out according to electoral law and declaring the results.