Election Offences Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Election Agent, Election Expenses and Illegal Practices
Section 25
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Within 31 days after the date of publication of the result of an election in the Gazette the election agent of every candidate at that election shall deposit with the proper officer a true return, in this Act referred to as the "return respecting election expenses," in the Form B in the First
Schedule, containing detailed statements as respects that candidate of -
all payments made by the election agent together with all the bills and receipts referred to in subsection (1) of section 18, which bills and re-ceipts are in this Act included in the expression
"return respecting election expenses" and the dates of payment of all sums for which no receipt is attached;
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the ·amount of personal expenses, if any, paid by the candidate;
the disputed claims so far as the election agent is aware; .
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all unpaid claims, if any, of which the elec-tion agent is aware in respect of which application has been made or is about to be made to an Elec-tion Judge or Judge of the High Court;
all money, securities and other valuable con-siderations received by or promised to the election agent from or by any candidate or any other per-Election Offences son for the purpose of expenses incurred or to be incurred on account or in respect of the manage-ment of the election, naming every person from whom the sum may have been received or by whom such sum may have been promised, showing as to each sum whether it was received as contribu-tion, loan, deposit or otherwise;
the amount of expenses, if any, incurred by any person authorised by the election agent under subsection (1) of section 16.
The return respecting election expenses shall be signed by the election agent and shall be accompanied by a statement made by the candidate and his election agent which shall be respectively in Forms C and D in the First
Schedule and shall be on oath before the Chairman or a member of the Election Commission, a magistrate, a Com-missioner for Oaths, or the Supervisor of Elections:
Provided that where the candidate has named himself as election agent under subsection (2) of section 12 such state-ment shall be made only in Form C of the First Schedule.
If the said return and statements are not trans-mitted before the expiration of the time limited for the pur-pose, the candidate shall not after the expiration of such time sit or vote until either such return and statements have been transmitted or until the date of the allowance of such authorised excuse for failure to transmit the same as in this
Act mentioned; and if he sits or votes in contravention of this Act he shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of
$1,000 for every day on which he so sits or votes.
If any candidate or election agent fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section he shall be guilty of an illegal practice and the provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of section 11.
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Publication of deposit of return. etc.
Employers to allow em-ployees reasonable period for voting