110. The director general shall reimburse, up to fifteen cents per listed elector, the election expenses then incurred and paid in conformity with this chapter by the official agent of each candidate declared elected under section 32 or 38 of the Election Act 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 197 of the said act to the same remuneration as a poll clerk.
The director general 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 shall not reimburse the additional amount of twenty-five cents per elector contemplated by paragraph b of subsection 2 of section 109.
To be entitled to reimbursement, the official agent of the candidate must produce a statement in the form prescribed by the director general and such statement must be accompanied by a statement supported by oath or solemn affirmation and the invoices, receipts or other vouchers, or certified copies of such documents, which shall afterwards be forwarded to the returning officer.
However, the director general shall make a reimbursement so long as the official agent of a candidate has not delivered, in accordance with the first paragraph of section 112, 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 115.
1977, c. 11, s. 110; 1979, c. 56, s. 302.