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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003/article-45",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/284",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assembly-for-wales-representation-of-the-people-order-2003",
  "path": "article/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Constituency and individual candidates: limitation of election expenses",
  "text": "(1) The election expenses incurred by or on behalf of a constituency or individual candidate at an Assembly election must not in the aggregate exceed the maximum amount specified in paragraph (3).\n(2) Where any election expenses are incurred in excess of the maximum amount specified in paragraph (3) any candidate or election agent who —\n(a) incurred, or authorised the incurring of, the election expenses, and\n(b) knew or ought reasonably to have known that the expenses would be incurred in excess of that maximum amount,\nshall be guilty of an illegal practice.\n(3) The maximum amount is —\n(a) at an ordinary election, for a candidate at a constituency election—\n(i) for an Assembly constituency which is coterminous with a parliamentary constituency which is a county constituency, £5,761 together with an additional 6.5p for every entry in the register of electors, and\n(ii) for an Assembly constituency which is coterminous with a parliamentary constituency which is a borough constituency, £5,761 together with an additional 4.8p for every entry in the register of electors,\n(b) at an election to fill a casual vacancy, for a candidate at a constituency election —\n(i) for an Assembly constituency which is coterminous with a parliamentary constituency which is a county constituency, £100,000, and\n(ii) for an Assembly constituency which is coterminous with a parliamentary constituency which is a borough constituency, £100,000, and\n(c) for an individual candidate at a regional election, the aggregate of the maximum amounts under sub-paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) as apply, or would apply, at that time at a constituency election in respect of each Assembly constituency in the Assembly electoral region for which the election is held.\n(4) In paragraph (3) “the register of electors” means the register of local government electors for the Assembly constituency or Assembly electoral region in question as it has effect on the last day for publication of notice of the election.\n(5) The maximum amount mentioned for an individual candidate at an Assembly election is not required to cover his personal expenses.\n(6) Where at a constituency election notice of poll is countermanded or the poll is abandoned by reason of a candidate’s death, the maximum amount of election expenses shall, for any of the other candidates who then remain validly nominated, be twice, or if there has been a previous increase under this paragraph, three times what it would have been but for any increase under this paragraph.\n(7) The maximum amount mentioned for a candidate shall not be affected by the change in the timing of an Assembly election or of any step in the proceedings at an Assembly election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/284/article/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:23.668590+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."
}