E-2.3 - Act respecting school elections to elect certain members of the boards of directors of English-language school service centres

Section 206.36 Disposition versions

2002-11-17

206.36. The following are not election expenses

(1)  the cost of publishing articles, editorials, news, reports or letters to the editor in a newspaper, periodical or other publication, provided that they are published in the same manner and under the same rules as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or reward, that the newspaper, periodical or other publication is not established for the purposes of or with a view to the election and that the circulation and frequency of publication are as what obtains outside the election period;

(2)  the cost of broadcasting by a radio or television station of a program of public affairs, news or commentary, provided that the program is broadcast in the same manner and under the same rules as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or reward;

(3)  the transportation costs of any person other than an authorized candidate, paid out of his own money, if the costs are not reimbursed to him;

(4)  the cost of the food and beverages served at an electoral activity where the cost is included in the entrance fee paid by participants;

(5)  the reasonable costs incurred for the publication of explanatory commentaries on this Act, provided the commentaries are strictly objective and contain no publicity of such a nature as to favour or oppose an authorized candidate;

(6)  interest accrued from the beginning of the election period to the day occurring 90 days after polling day, on any loan lawfully granted to an authorized candidate for election expenses, unless the authorized candidate has paid the interest and declared it as an election expense in his return of election expenses;

(7)  the expenses incurred for the holding of meetings, the total of which does not exceed $200 for the entire election period, including the renting of halls and the convening of participants, provided the meetings are not directly or indirectly organized on behalf of an authorized candidate;

(8)  the publicity expenses, the total of which does not exceed $300 for the entire election period, incurred by a private intervenor authorized in accordance with Division VIII, without directly promoting or opposing a candidate, to publicize or obtain support for the intervenor’s views on a matter of public interest or to advocate abstention or the spoiling of ballots.

2002, c. 10, s. 80.