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The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009

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PART 11ELECTION EXPENSES

Candidates’ election expenses

55.—(1) A candidate at a Health Board election must not incur expenses on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election in excess of £250 (regardless of whether the expenses are incurred before, during or after the election).

(2) If a candidate’s election expenses exceed £250, any candidate or counting agent who—

(a)incurred (or authorised the incurring of) those expenses; or

(b)knew or ought reasonably to have known that election expenses would exceed £250,

is guilty of an illegal practice for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1983 Act.

Election expenses statements

56.—(1) No later than 35 days after the day on which the result of a Health Board election is declared, every candidate at the election must deliver to the returning officer a statement of all payments made by that candidate on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election together with all bills or receipts relating to such payments.

(2) The statement must be in such form as the returning officer thinks fit.

(3) The returning officer must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, forward the statement to the chairman of the Health Board for which the election was held.

(4) Rule 54 applies to a statement forwarded to a chairman as if the statement was something forwarded to the chairman under rule 52.

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