Greater London Authority Act 1999

Prohibition of expenses not authorised by election agent U.K.

19 (1) Section 75 shall be amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In subsection (1) (which prohibits the incurring of certain expenses by any person other than the candidate, his agent or persons authorised in writing by the agent)—

(a) after “promoting or procuring the election of a candidate” there shall be inserted “ (or, in the case of an election of the London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, a registered political party or candidates of that party) ”; and

(b) at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be added “; or

(d) in the case of an election of the London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, of otherwise presenting to the electors the candidate’s registered political party (if any) or the views of that party or the extent or nature of that party’s backing or disparaging any other registered political party”; and

(c) after the words “but paragraph (c)” there shall be inserted “ or (d) ”.

(3) After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A) In the application of subsection (1) above in relation to an election of the London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, any reference to the candidate includes a reference to all or any of the candidates of a registered political party.”

F1 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) At the end of the section there shall be added—

“(7) For the purposes of this section, in the case of an election of the London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, a candidate’s registered political party is the registered political party (if any) which submitted for the purposes of that election a list of candidates on which the candidate in question is included.”

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 para. 19(4) repealed (16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 41, s, 158(2), Sch. 22 (with s. 156(6)); S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I, Annex (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 1 Pt. II)