Limitation of candidate election expenses
35.—(1) The election expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at a PCC election must not in the aggregate exceed the maximum amount specified in the table in paragraph (2).
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the maximum amount in respect of a candidate at a PCC election for a police area listed in an entry in the first column of table 2 is the amount shown for that entry in the second column.
Table 2
Police area | Maximum amount |
|---|---|
| Avon & Somerset | £ 222,851 |
| Bedfordshire | £ 83,681 |
| Cambridgeshire | £ 108,754 |
| Cheshire | £ 142,720 |
| Cleveland | £ 76,889 |
| Cumbria | £ 72,231 |
| Derbyshire | £ 141,933 |
| Devon and Cornwall | £ 233,281 |
| Dorset | £ 106,888 |
| Durham | £ 89,055 |
| Dyfed-Powys | £ 72,622 |
| Essex | £234,412 |
| Gloucestershire | £ 86,344 |
| Greater Manchester | £ 356,204 |
| Gwent | £ 78,422 |
| Hampshire | £ 260,591 |
| Hertfordshire | £ 151,378 |
| Humberside | £ 126,520 |
| Kent | £ 228,338 |
| Lancashire | £ 201,729 |
| Leicestershire | £ 140,496 |
| Lincolnshire | £ 99,900 |
| Merseyside | £ 182,529 |
| Norfolk | £ 120,662 |
| North Wales | £ 95,241 |
| North Yorkshire | £ 111,814 |
| Northamptonshire | £ 95,663 |
| Northumbria | £ 195,548 |
| Nottinghamshire | £ 146,305 |
| South Wales | £ 174,179 |
| South Yorkshire | £ 178,637 |
| Staffordshire | £ 153,313 |
| Suffolk | £ 100,698 |
| Surrey | £ 154,401 |
| Sussex | £ 219,983 |
| Thames Valley | £ 303,303 |
| Warwickshire | £ 76,476 |
| West Mercia | £ 168,735 |
| West Midlands | £ 357,435 |
| West Yorkshire | £ 287,255 |
| Wiltshire | £ 93,682 |
(3) The maximum amount is not required to cover the candidate’s personal expenses.
(4) The maximum amount is not affected for any candidate by the change in the timing of the PCC election or of any step in the proceedings at the election.
(5) Where a poll at a PCC election is countermanded or abandoned by reason of a candidate’s death, the maximum amount for any of the other candidates who then remain validly nominated is to be twice or, if there has been a previous increase under this paragraph, three times what it would have been but for any increase under this paragraph.
(6) Where any election expenses are incurred in excess of a maximum amount specified in paragraph (2) or (5), any candidate or election agent who—
(a)incurred, or authorised the incurring of, the election expenses, and
(b)knew or ought reasonably to have known that the expenses would be incurred in excess of that maximum amount,
is guilty of an illegal practice.