L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists

Section 389 Disposition versions

1978-04-01

389. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 380; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 12, s. 38; 1975, c. 8, s. 57; 1975, c. 9, s. 35; 1977, c. 11, s. 132; 1977, c. 11, s. 129.

1977-12-31

389. The director general of elections shall reimburse, up to fifteen cents per listed elector, the election expenses incurred and paid in conformity with this act by the official agent of each candidate declared elected under section 168 or 172 or having, according to the official addition of the votes cast at the election, obtained twenty per cent of the valid votes cast, or whose agents are entitled under section 228 to the same remuneration as a poll-clerk.

The director general of elections shall also reimburse:

(a)  an amount equal to one-fifth of that portion of the election expenses contemplated in the preceding paragraph in excess of fifteen cents per listed elector but not in excess of forty cents per listed elector;

(b)  all of that portion of the election expenses contemplated in the said paragraph in excess of forty cents per listed elector.

But the director general of elections shall not reimburse the additional amount of twenty-five cents per elector contemplated by paragraph b of subsection 2 of section 388.

To be entitled to reimbursement, the official agent of the candidate must produce a statement in the form prescribed by the director general of elections and such statement must be accompanied by an affidavit and invoices, receipts or other vouchers, or certified copies of such documents, which shall afterwards be forwarded to the returning-officer.

However, the director general of elections shall not make a reimbursement so long as the official agent of a candidate has not delivered, in accordance with the first paragraph of section 391, a return of election expenses or has not been excused of the delay to deliver it by order of a judge, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of section 394.

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 380; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 12, s. 38; 1975, c. 8, s. 57; 1975, c. 9, s. 35; 1977, c. 11, s. 132.