The amount of any payment made by a candidate under paragraph 8 (or, if sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph applies, the net amount of any such payment after deducting the payment under that sub-paragraph) shall be taken, for the purposes of Part 2 (the Election campaign) of the 1983 Act (as modified for the purposes of combined authority mayoral elections by regulation 3(2) and (4) of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations), to be an amount of election expenses incurred by the candidate in relation to the election.

Nothing in section 75(1) (restriction on third party election expenditure) of the 1983 Act (as modified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)) shall be taken to apply, in relation to any candidate, to any expenses incurred by the combined authority returning officer in consequence of the relevant provisions referred to in article 3 of this Order.