ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 41 Prohibition of unauthorised expenses.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 41

Prohibition of unauthorised expenses.

41.(1) Subject to sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) and to sub-paragraph (3) of
paragraph 31 of the Ninth Schedule, no expenses shall, with a view to
promoting or procuring the election of a candidate at an election, be incurred
by any person other than the candidate, his election agent and persons
authorised in writing by the election agent on account

(a)of holding public meetings or organising any public display; or

(b)of issuing advertisements, circulars or publications; or

(c)of otherwise presenting to the electors the candidate or his views or the
extent or nature of his backing or disparaging another candidate; or

(d)of the hire or provision of vehicles for the conveyance of voters to or
from the poll.

(2) Paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) shall not

(i)restrict the publication of any matter relating to the election in a
newspaper or other periodical; or

(ii)apply to any expenses not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of [50p]
which may be incurred by an individual and are not incurred in pursuance of a
plan suggested by or concerted with others, or to expenses incurred by any
person in travelling or in living away from home or similar personal expenses.

(3) Paragraph (d) of sub-section (1) shall not

(i)apply to the provision or use by its owner, for the purpose of conveying
voters to or from the poll, of any vehicle, not being a vehicle ordinarily
used for letting or hiring, where no payment or reward is made or promised by
any person to the owner of the vehicle in respect of its provision or use for
such purpose;

(ii)apply to the letting, hiring, employing or using of a vehicle by a voter
or several voters at their joint cost for the purpose of conveying him or them
to or from the poll at any election.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1972 NI 13 art.13(2)(b)

(5) Every person authorised by the election agent under sub-section (1) to
incur expenses at [an election] shall

(a)within seven days after the day on which the result of the election is
declared, send to the election agent a written statement containing
particulars of all expenses incurred by him and such expenses shall for all
the purposes of this Act be regarded as expenses incurred by the election
agent;

(b)within fourteen days after the day on which the result of the election is
declared send to the returning officer a return of the amount of those
expenses, stating the election at which and the candidate in whose support
they were incurred, and the return shall be accompanied by a declaration made
by the said person (or in the case of an association or body of persons, by a
director, general manager, secretary or other like officer thereof) verifying
the return and giving particulars of the matters for which the expenses were
incurred:

Provided that paragraph (b) shall not apply to any person engaged or employed
for payment or promise of payment by the candidate or his election agent.

(6) The return and declaration under the foregoing provisions of this section
shall be respectively in the forms numbered 2 and 3 in the Tenth Schedule, and
the authority received from the election agent shall be annexed to and deemed
to form part of the return.

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