E-3.2 - Election Act

Section 407 Disposition versions

1985-03-13

407. The following shall not be deemed election expenses:

(1)  the publishing in a newspaper or other periodical of editorials, news, reports or letters to the editor, 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 or other periodical is not established for the purposes or in view of the election and that the circulation and frequency of publication do not differ from what obtains outside the election period;

(2)  the transmission by a radio or television station of a broadcast of news or comment, provided that such broadcast be made 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 necessary cost of holding a convention in an electoral division for the selection of a candidate, including the cost of renting a hall and the convening of delegates and the publicity made at the convention, but shall not include any other form of publicity nor exceed $3 000;

(4)  the reasonable expenses of a candidate for attending a convention to choose a candidate for an electoral division, excluding any cost of publicity except the publicity made by the candidate at the convention;

(5)  the reasonable expenses incurred by a candidate or any other person, out of his own money, for his lodging and food while traveling for election purposes, if the expenses are not reimbursed to him;

(6)  the transportation costs of a candidate, if not subject to reimbursement;

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

(8)  the reasonable expenses incurred for the publication of explanatory commentaries on this Act and the regulations made under its authority, provided that the commentaries are strictly objective and contain no publicity of such a nature as to favour or oppose a candidate or a party;

(9)  the reasonable expenses usually incurred for the current operation of not over two permanent offices of the party whose address is entered in the registers of the chief electoral officer;

(10)  interest accrued between the beginning of the election period and the ninetieth day following the polling day, on any loan lawfully granted to an official representative for election expenses unless the official agent has paid the interest and declared it as an election expense in his return of election expenses.

1984, c. 51, s. 407.