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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-board-elections-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule/paragraph-55",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/352",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-board-elections-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Candidates’ election expenses",
  "text": "(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).\n(2) If a candidate’s election expenses exceed £250, any candidate or counting agent who—\n(a) incurred (or authorised the incurring of) those expenses; or\n(b) knew or ought reasonably to have known that election expenses would exceed £250,\nis guilty of an illegal practice for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1983 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "Sch. rule 5 renumbered as Sch. rule 5(1)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/58",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/58",
      "affecting_title": "The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/352/schedule/paragraph/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:59:24.243470+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."
}