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F1[(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 [F1 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 [F1 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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