# The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012, Article 35: Limitation of candidate election expenses (1) The election expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at a PCC election must not in the aggregate exceed the maximum amount specified in the table in paragraph (2). (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the maximum amount in respect of a candidate at a PCC election for a police area listed in an entry in the first column of table 2 is the amount shown for that entry in the second column. Table 2 Police area Maximum amount Avon & Somerset £305,130 Bedfordshire £114,570 Cambridgeshire £148,910 Cheshire £195,410 Cleveland £105,280 Cumbria £98,900 Derbyshire £194,340 Devon and Cornwall £319,410 Dorset £146,350 Durham £121,930 Dyfed-Powys £99,430 Essex £320,960 Gloucestershire £118,220 . . . . . . Gwent £107,370 Hampshire and Isle of Wight £356,810 Hertfordshire £207,270 Humberside £173,230 Kent £312,650 Lancashire £276,210 Leicestershire £192,370 Lincolnshire £136,780 Merseyside £249,920 Norfolk £165,210 North Wales £130,400 . . . . . . Northamptonshire £130,980 Northumbria £267,750 Nottinghamshire £200,320 South Wales £238,490 . . . . . . Staffordshire £209,920 Suffolk £137,880 Surrey £211,410 Sussex £301,210 Thames Valley £415,290 Warwickshire £104,710 West Mercia £231,030 West Midlands £489,410 . . . . . . Wiltshire £128,270 (3) The maximum amount is not required to cover the candidate's personal expenses. (4) The maximum amount is not affected for any candidate by the change in the timing of the PCC election or of any step in the proceedings at the election. (5) Where a poll at a PCC election is countermanded or abandoned by reason of a candidate's death, the maximum amount for any of the other candidates who then remain validly nominated is to 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. (6) Where any election expenses are incurred in excess of a maximum amount specified in paragraph (2) or (5), any candidate or election agent who— (a) incurred, or authorised the incurring of, the election expenses, and (b) knew or ought reasonably to have known that the expenses would be incurred in excess of that maximum amount, is guilty of an illegal practice. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1917/article/35 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-order-2012/article-35 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.