Article 56 Inspection of returns and declarations: candidates

(1)

Any return or declaration (including the accompanying documents) delivered to the appropriate officer under articles 39, 46 or 48 above–

(a)

shall be kept by the appropriate returning officer at some convenient place appointed by him; and

(b)

shall at all reasonable times during the 2 years next after they are received by him be open to inspection by any person on payment of the fees set out in paragraph (2) below,

and the appropriate returning officer shall on demand and on payment of the fees set out in paragraph (3) below provide copies of them or any part of them.

(2)

The fee for inspecting a return or declaration (including any accompanying documents) specified in paragraph (1) above (which relates to the return and declarations of election expenses) shall be £1.50.

(3)

The fee payable for a copy of any such return, declaration or document, shall be at the rate of 15p for each side of each page.

(4)

After the expiry of those 2 years the appropriate returning officer–

(a)

may cause those returns and declarations (including the accompanying documents) to be destroyed; or

(b)

if the candidate or his election agent so require shall return them to the candidate.

(5)

Any returns or declarations delivered under article 39 above shall be returned not to a candidate (if he or his election agents require) but to the person delivering them, if he so requires.