ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 46 Return as to expenses at an election.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 46

Return as to expenses at an election.

46.(1) Within thirty-five days after the day on which the result of the
election is declared, the election agent of every candidate at [an election]
shall transmit to the returning officer a true return in the form numbered 4
in the Tenth Schedule, containing as respects that candidate a statement of
all payments made by the election agent together with all the relevant bills
and receipts.

(2) The return shall deal under a separate heading or sub-heading with any
expenses included therein

(a)as respects which a return is required to be made under sub-section (5) of
section forty-one; or

(b)which are on account of the remuneration or expenses of speakers at public
meetings.

(3) The return shall also contain as respects that candidate

(a)a statement of the amount of personal expenses, if any, paid by the
candidate;

(b)a statement of all disputed claims of which the election agent is aware;

(c)a statement of all the unpaid claims, if any, of which the election agent
is aware, in respect of which application has been or is about to be made to
the High Court or county court;

(d)a statement of all money, securities and equivalent of money received by
the election agent from the candidate or any other person for the purposes of
election expenses incurred or to be incurred, with a statement of the name of
every person from whom they have been received.

(4) Where the candidate is his own election agent, a statement of all money,
securities and equivalent of money paid by the candidate shall be substituted
in the return as to election expenses for the statement of money, securities
and equivalent of money received by the election agent from the candidate.

(5) Where after the date at which the return as to election expenses is
transmitted, leave is given by the court under sub-section (3) of section
forty-three for any claims to be paid, the candidate or his election agent
shall, within seven days after the payment thereof, transmit to the returning
officer a return of the sums paid in pursuance of the leave, accompanied by a
copy of the order of the court giving the leave; and in default he shall be
deemed to have failed to comply with the requirements of this section without
such authorised excuse as is mentioned in section forty-nine.

(6) Notwithstanding anything in this section or in section forty-seven, no
return or declaration as to election expenses shall be required in the case of
a person

(a)who is a candidate at an election but is so only because he has been
declared by others to be a candidate; and

(b)who has not consented to the declaration or taken any part as a candidate
in the election.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 46