SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Candidate’s personal expenses and petty expenses

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(1)

Section 74 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) (which authorises a candidate to pay personal expenses, but subject to a limit in the case of a parliamentary election) after “but” there shall be inserted “ (a) ” and for “and” there shall be substituted—

“(b)

the amount which a candidate at an election of the Mayor of London may pay shall not exceed £5,000,

(c)

the amount which a candidate at an election of a constituency member of the London Assembly may pay shall not exceed £600, and

(d)

the amount which a candidate to be a London member of the London Assembly at an ordinary election may pay shall not exceed £900,

and, where paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) above applies, ”.

(3)

After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A)

In the application of subsection (1) above in relation to a person who is a candidate in two or more Authority elections those elections shall be treated—

(a)

if one of them is an election of the Mayor of London, as if they together constituted a single election falling within paragraph (b) of that subsection, and

(b)

in any other case, as if they together constituted a single election falling within paragraph (d) of that subsection.”