{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-ballot-expenditure-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-ballot-expenditure-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/628",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Ballot Expenditure) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-ballot-expenditure-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Incurred expenditure",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, expenditure is incurred if it is incurred directly in connection with—\n(a) preparing, producing, commissioning or distributing material,\n(b) advertising or other promotion,\n(c) holding a meeting, or\n(d) securing information with a view to its use in connection with (a), (b) or (c) above\nfor the purposes of influencing the outcome of ballots.\n(2) Expenditure is incurred in relation to paragraph (1)(a) above when the material in question is distributed and in relation to paragraphs 1(b) and (c) above when the advertising or other promotion or meeting is published or, as the case may be, takes place.\n(3) Expenditure in connection with paragraph (1)(d) above includes the payment of a subscription or a proportion thereof in respect of any year to any person with the primary objective of securing the information referred to.\n(4) Additional expenditure incurred for the purpose of providing written or oral communication in more than one language shall be disregarded for the purposes of this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/628/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:59.413152+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}