17 Ballot expenses.S
Subject to subsection (2) of section 14 of this Act, an education authority who have received from a school board written notice under subsection (6) of section 13 of this Act, either of a first resolution or of a request, shall neither pay any sum nor incur any expense, for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the ballot provided for by subsection (1) of the said section 13 (or the outcome of any fresh ballot held, in accordance with the said section 14, by virtue of section 15 of this Act), in excess of such maximum amount as may be prescribed; and the school board may, for the purposes of the ballot, require the Secretary of State to make payment to them under this section of sums whose total does not exceed that amount in respect of such expenses as they may incur in promoting the acquisition of self-governing status by the school.