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(1)In this Part, a reference to a regulated transaction must be construed in accordance with this section.
(2)An agreement between a registered party and another person by which the other person makes a loan of money to the party is a regulated transaction.
(3)An agreement between a registered party and another person by which the other person provides a credit facility to the party is a regulated transaction.
(4)Where—
(a)a registered party and another person (A) enter into a regulated transaction of a description mentioned in subsection (2) or (3) or a transaction under which any property, services or facilities are provided for the use or benefit of the party (including the services of any person), and
(b)A also enters into an arrangement whereby another person (B) gives any form of security (whether real or personal) for a sum owed to A by the party under the transaction mentioned in paragraph (a),
the arrangement is a regulated transaction.
(5)An agreement or arrangement is also a regulated transaction if—
(a)the terms of the agreement or arrangement as first entered into do not constitute a regulated transaction by virtue of subsection (2), (3) or (4), but
(b)the terms are subsequently varied in such a way that the agreement or arrangement becomes a regulated transaction.
(6)References in subsections (2) and (3) to a registered party include references to an officer, member, trustee or agent of the party if he makes the agreement as such.
(7)References in subsection (4) to a registered party include references to an officer, member, trustee or agent of the party if the property, services or facilities are provided to him, or the sum is owed by him, as such.
(8)Except so far as the contrary intention appears, references to a registered party in the context of—
(a)the making of a loan to a registered party,
(b)the provision of a credit facility to a registered party, or
(c)a sum being owed by a registered party,
must, in the case of a party with accounting units, be construed as references to the central organisation of the party or any of its accounting units.
(9)A reference to a connected transaction is a reference to the transaction mentioned in subsection (4)(b).
(10)In this section a reference to anything being done by or in relation to a party or a person includes a reference to its being done directly or indirectly through a third person.
(11)A credit facility is an agreement whereby a registered party is enabled to receive from time to time from another party to the agreement a loan of money not exceeding such amount (taking account of any repayments made by the registered party) as is specified in or determined in accordance with the agreement.
(12)An agreement or arrangement is not a regulated transaction—
(a)to the extent that, in accordance with any enactment, a payment made in pursuance of the agreement or arrangement falls to be included in a return as to election expenses in respect of a candidate or candidates at a particular election, or
(b)if its value is not more than [F3£500].
(13)The Secretary of State may, by order, specify circumstances or any description of circumstances in which an agreement or arrangement falling within any of subsections (2) to (5) is not a regulated transaction.]]
Editorial Information
X1The insertion of the new heading "Chapter 1" in Pt. 4A on 1.7.2008 gives rise to a change in the structure of this legislation on SLD which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are now brought under that new heading.
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 4A (ss. 71F-71X) inserted (11.9.2006 for E.W.S. for specified purposes, 1.1.2007 for N.I. for specified purposes, 1.7.2008 for N.I. for specified purposes, 15.9.2014 for N.I. in so far as not already in force) by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22), ss. 61(1), 77(2); S.I. 2006/1972, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 20(a) (subject to art. 4, Sch. 2) (as substituted by S.I. 2006/2268, art. 3); S.I. 2006/3412, art. 4 (subject to art. 6, Sch. 2); S.I. 2008/1656, art. 2 (subject to art. 3, Sch. 1); S.I. 2014/1809, art. 2
F2Pt. 4A (ss. 71F-71Y) renumbered (1.7.2008) as Pt. 4A Ch. 1 by The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Regulation of Loans etc: Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1319), arts. 1(2), 3(1)
F3Sum in s. 71F(12)(b) substituted (1.1.2010) by Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 (c. 12), ss. 20(1), 43; S.I. 2009/3084, art. 4(h)
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