The Crofting Commission (Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

PART VI MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL

Election expenses

63.  All sums paid, and expenses incurred, by a candidate at an election, whether before, during or after an election, on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election, must not exceed £600.

Election expenses returns

64.—(1) Within 35 days of the day on which the result of the election is declared under regulation 48 every elected candidate must deliver to the returning officer a true return and declaration in such form as the returning officer thinks fit containing as respects that candidate a statement of all payments made by that candidate together with all the bills or receipts.

(2) The returning officer must then forward the returns to the registration officer.

(3) Regulation 53 applies to election expenses returns.

Effect of misdescription

65.  No misnomer or inaccurate description of any person or place named in—

(a) the crofting electoral register; or

(b) any list, record, nomination paper, ballot paper, notice or other document required for the purposes of these Regulations,

affects the full operation of the document with respect to that person or place in any case where the description of the person or place is such as to be commonly understood.