SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3U.K. Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Candidate’s personal expenses and petty expensesU.K.

18(1)Section 74 shall be amended as follows.U.K.

(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.