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.