PART 3 U.K. The election campaign

Other illegal practices, payments or employments U.K.

Providing money for illegal purposes U.K.

66.—(1) Where a person knowingly provides money—

(a) for any payment which is contrary to the provisions of this Order, or

(b) for any expenses incurred in excess of the maximum amount allowed by this Order, or

(c) for replacing any money expended in any such payment or expenses,

except where the payment or the incurring of the expenses may have been previously allowed to be an exception in pursuance of the provision mentioned in paragraph (2), that person is guilty of an illegal payment.

(2) The provision referred to in paragraph (1) is section 167 of the 1983 Act (application for relief), as applied by paragraph 1 of Schedule 9.