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(1)Within thirty-five days after the day on which the result of the election is declared, the election agent of every candidate at [F1 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.
[F2(7)At a local election, subsections (1) and (5) shall have effect as if for the word transmit in each place where it occurs there were substituted deliver and for the word transmitted in subsection (5) there were substituted delivered.]
F2SI 1987/168
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