Article 65 Meaning of “election expenses”I1

In this Part “election expenses”, in relation to an individual candidate, means, subject to the definition of “for the purposes of a candidate’s election” in article 37(1), and articles 48(2) and 66, any expenses incurred during the regulated period in respect of any matter specified in Part 1 of Schedule 7 which are used for the purposes of the candidate’s election.

No election expenses are to be regarded as incurred by virtue of paragraph (1) or article 66 in respect of any matter specified in Part 2 of Schedule 7.

For the purposes of this Part, election expenses are incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at a Senedd election if they are incurred—

In this Part and in Part 4, any reference to promoting or procuring a candidate’s election at an election includes doing so by prejudicing the electoral prospects of another candidate or registered political party at the election.

Schedule 7 makes further provision about the election expenses of individual candidates at a Senedd election.