{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-90ZB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983/section-90ZB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1983",
  "path": "section/90ZB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90ZB",
  "heading": "Scottish local government elections: meaning of “election expenses”",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to a local government election in Scotland.\n(2) In this Part of this Act, “election expenses”, in relation to a candidate at such an election, means any expenses incurred at any time in respect of any matter specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4B which is used—\n(a) for the purposes of the candidate’s election, and\n(b) after the date when the candidate becomes a candidate at the election.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) No election expenses are to be regarded as incurred by virtue of subsection (2) above or section 90C below in respect of any matter specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4B.\n(5) In this section and in section 90C below, “for the purposes of the candidate's election” means with a view to, or otherwise in connection with, promoting or procuring the candidate's election at the election.\n(6) For the purposes of this Part of this Act so far as applying to a local government election in Scotland, election expenses are incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at the election if they are incurred—\n(a) by the candidate or his election agent; or\n(b) by any person authorised by the candidate or his election agent to incur expenses.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) In this Part and in Part 3 of this Act so far as applying to a local government election in Scotland, any reference (in whatever terms) to promoting or procuring a candidate's election at an election includes doing so by prejudicing the electoral prospects of another candidate at the election.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) substituted (29.1.2001 for certain purposes and 16.2.2001 otherwise) by 2000 c. 2, s. 8(a), Sch. 1 para. 10; S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 90ZB inserted (S.) (28.9.2021) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 17(3), 63(2); S.S.I. 2021/314, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 90ZB(2) substituted (25.11.2021) by The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/437), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(a) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 90ZB(3) repealed (25.11.2021) by The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/437), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(b) (with art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 90ZB(7) repealed (25.11.2021) by The Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/437), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(b) (with art. 1(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2/section/90ZB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:48.049414+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."
}