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The Electoral Commission (Limit on Public Awareness Expenditure) Order 2001

S.I. 2001/1329 · Made 22 March 2001

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ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Made 22nd March 2001

Laid before Parliament 9th April 2001

Coming into force 1st July 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 13(6) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000f1, hereby makes the following Order with the consent of the Treasury:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2000 c. 41.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Electoral Commission (Limit on Public Awareness Expenditure) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st July 2001.

2

The sum of £1,500,000 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 13(6) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (power to specify a sum which the Electoral Commission must not exceed in their total expenditure incurred in any financial year in performing their functions under section 13(1) of that Act).

Signature

Mike O'Brien

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

16th March 2001

We consent to this Order

Jim Dowd

Clive Betts

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under section 13(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, the Electoral Commission are required to promote public awareness of the matters specified in that provision (which include current electoral systems and systems of local government). This Order exercises the power in section 13(6) of that Act to set a limit on the total expenditure in any financial year in respect of such functions.