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Article 50 Power to vary provisions concerning election expenses

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

After such consultation with the Assembly as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate, he may by order made by statutory instrument vary—

(a)

the sum or sums specified in articles 38(2), 39(3), 40(3), 41(1) or (2), 42(2), 43(3) or 44(3),

(b)

a maximum amount of a candidate’s expenses specified in article 46(2)(a) or (b), or

(c)

the maximum amount of a registered political party’s expenses specified in article 47(2) or 48(2),

where in his opinion there has been a change in the value of money since the last occasion on which that sum or amount was fixed (whether by such an order or otherwise) and the variation shall be such as in his opinion is justified by that change.

(2)

An order under paragraph (1) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.