Paragraph 1 InterpretationI1

This Schedule has effect for controlling donations to individual candidates at a Senedd election and in the following provisions of this Schedule, references to “candidate” are to be construed accordingly.

For the purposes of this Schedule, except where the context requires otherwise—

• “donation” (“rhodd”) is to be construed in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 4;

• “market value” (“gwerth marchnadol”) in relation to any property, means the price which might reasonably be expected to be paid for the property on a sale on the open market;

• “relevant donation” (“rhodd berthnasol”), in relation to a candidate at a Senedd election, means a donation to the candidate or the candidate’s election agent for the purpose of meeting election expenses incurred by or on behalf of the candidate.

In the definition of “relevant donation”, the reference to a donation “for the purpose of meeting election expenses incurred by or on behalf of the candidate” includes a reference to a donation for the purpose of securing that any such expenses are not so incurred, and a donation is to be taken to be a donation for either of those purposes if, having regard to all the circumstances, it must reasonably be assumed to be such a donation.

In relation to a donation received by a candidate at a Senedd election, references to a “permissible donor falling within section 54(2) of the 2000 Political Parties Act”^f1 are to be read as if section 54(2) did not include a party registered in the Northern Ireland register maintained by the Electoral Commission under Part 2 of that Act.