{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2977",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-northern-ireland-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 42 (limitation of expenses at an election) is amended as follows.\n(2) For the heading substitute “ Limitation of election expenses ”.\n(3) In subsection (1) for “, and for a candidate” to the end of that subsection substitute “ . This subsection does not apply at a local election. ”.\n(4) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1ZA) The election expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at a local election must not in the aggregate exceed the maximum amount specified in subsection (1ZB).\n(1ZB) The maximum amount is £600 together with 5p for every entry in the register of electors.”.\n(5) In subsection (1A) for “(1)” substitute “ (1ZA) ”.\n(6) After subsection (6) insert—\n“(7) Where at a local election a poll is countermanded or abandoned by reason of a candidate's death, the maximum amount of election expenses shall, for any of the other candidates who remain validly nominated, be twice or, if there has been a previous increase under this subsection, three times what it would have been but for any increase under this subsection; but the maximum amount shall not be affected for any candidate by any change in timing.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2977/schedule/1/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:39.614263+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."
}