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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 40

Personal expenses of candidate and petty expenses at an election.

40.[(1) The candidate at an election may pay any personal expenses (as defined
by this Act) incurred by him on account of or in connection with or incidental
to the election but the amount which a candidate at a parliamentary election
may so pay shall not exceed #100 and any further personal expenses so incurred
by him shall be paid by his election agent.]

(2) Any person may, if so authorised in writing by the election agent of the
candidate at [an election], pay any necessary expenses for stationery,
postage, telegrams and other petty expenses to a total amount not exceeding
that named in the authority, but any excess above the total amount so named
shall be paid by the election agent.

(3) Within the time limited by this Act for sending in claims

(a)the candidate at [an election] shall send to his election agent a written
statement of the amount of personal expenses paid by him under subsection (1);

(b)any such person as is referred to in sub-section (2) shall give to the
election agent a written statement of particulars of all payments made by him
and shall on receiving repayment of the amount of such payments give the
election agent a receipt therefor.

(4) All such payments as are referred to in sub-section (3) shall be included
by the election agent in his return of expenses made under section forty-six,
and for the purposes of that section the statement and receipt given under
paragraph (b) of sub-section (3) shall be the relevant bill and receipt for
the payments to which they relate.


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