Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (Period for Reckoning Election Expenses) Order 2014.S.I. No. 144/2014


Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (Period for Reckoning Election Expenses) Order 2014.S.I. No. 144/2014

S.I. No. 144/2014 - Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (Period for Reckoning Election Expenses) Order 2014.

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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 21st March, 2014.

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 12B of the Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (No. 7 of 1999), hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (Period for Reckoning Election Expenses) Order 2014.

2. The period referred to in section 12B of the said Act during which election expenses at local elections to be held in the year 2014 shall be reckoned for the purposes of Part IIIA of the said Act shall commence on the 25th day of March, 2014.

3. The period referred to in the said section 12B shall end on the 23rd day of May, 2014.

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GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government,

20 March 2014.

PHIL HOGAN,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

This Order determines the period for the reckoning of election expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate, designated person, national agent of a political party, or third party at the local elections to be held on May 23rd, 2014, in accordance with section 12B of the Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 .

Section 12A of the said Act specifies limits on electoral expenditure which may be incurred by a candidate, designated person and national agent during the period specified in the Order.

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