Election Offences Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Election Agent, Election Expenses and Illegal Practices
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Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No expenses shall, with a view to promoting or procuring the election of a candidate, be incurred by any person other than the candidate, his election agent and per-sons authorised in writing by the election agent on account-
of holding any public meeting or public en-tertainment, or organising any public display;
of printing or issuing advertisements, circu-lars or publications; or
of otherwise presenting to the electors the candidate or his views or the extent or nature of his backing, or disparaging another candidate:
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Provided that this paragraph shall not
restrict publication in a newspaper or other periodical of any matter relating to the elec-tion;
apply to expenses incurred by any person in travelling or in living away from home, or to similar personal expenses.
Where a person incurs any expenses required to be authorised by an election agent under subsection (1) of this section, he shall within 14 days after the date of publica-tion of the result of the election in the Gazette send to the election agent a return, accompanied by a declaration made by him (or in the case of an association or body of persons a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer thereof) verifying the return and giving particulars of the matters for which the expenses were incurred:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any person engaged or employed for payment or promise of payment by the candidate or his election agent.
The expenses shown in the return referred to in subsection (2) of this section shall be included in the return made by the election agent in accordance with subsection
of section 25, and the authority received from the elec-tion agent shall be annexed to and deemed to form part of such return.
( 4) Any person who incurs any expenses in con-travention of this section, or who makes any declaration required by subsection (2) of this section which is false and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of an illegal practice.
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Period for sending in claims and making pay-ments for election ex-penses