E-3.2 - Election Act

Section 451 Disposition versions

1985-03-13

451. The returning officer shall, without delay, transmit every nomination paper he receives to the chief electoral officer.

The chief electoral officer shall pay, without delay, to every candidate who will be entitled to reimbursement of election expenses under section 458, an advance on the reimbursement equal to 35% of the maximum election expenses fixed in the second paragraph of section 430 for the electoral division concerned.

The payment is made jointly to the candidate and his official representative in the case of an authorized independent candidate, or in the case of the candidate of an authorized party, jointly to the candidate and the official representative of the party authority at the level of the electoral division concerned; failing such an authority, the payment is made jointly to the candidate and the official representative of the party.

1984, c. 51, s. 451.