# Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Nothing in paragraph 1 extends to—
(a) expenses incurred in respect of the publication of any matter relating to an election, other than an advertisement, in—
(i) a newspaper or periodical,
(ii) a broadcast made by the British Broadcasting Corporation or by Sianel Pedwar Cymru, or
(iii) a programme included in any service licensed under Part 1 or 3 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 or Part 1 or 2 of the Broadcasting Act 1996;
(b) expenses incurred in respect of, or in consequence of, the translation of anything from English into Welsh or from Welsh into English;
(c) reasonable personal expenses incurred by an individual in travelling or in providing for the individual's accommodation or other personal needs;
(d) reasonable expenses incurred that are reasonably attributable to an individual's disability;
(e) expenses incurred in respect of the provision by any individual of the individual's own services which the individual provides voluntarily in the individual's own time and free of charge;
(f) in relation to an election for the purposes of which a limit is imposed by paragraph 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 or 11 of Schedule 10 (limits for periods relating to parliamentary general elections , general elections to Senedd Cymru, or general elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly), reasonable expenses incurred that are reasonably attributable to the protection of persons or property.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(d), “disability” has the same meaning as in the Equality Act 2010 (see section 6 of that Act).
(3) In relation to polls at elections for membership of the Scottish Parliament, nothing in paragraph 1 is to be taken as extending to reasonable expenses incurred that are reasonably attributable to the translation of anything into languages other than English.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/41/schedule/8A/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000/schedule-8A/paragraph-2
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