The Local Elections (Variation of Limits of Candidates' Election Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 491

NORTHERN IRELAND

The Local Elections (Variation of Limits of Candidates' Election Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Made

15th March 1989

Coming into force

16th March 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of March 1989

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 38(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Elections (Variation of Limits of Candidates' Election Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order extends to Northern Ireland only.

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

3.  In section 42(1) of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (limit on candidates' election expenses)(3), for the words “£135” and “2.8p” there shall be substituted the words “£162” and “3.2p”, respectively.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the maximum amount of a candidate’s election expenses at local elections in Northern Ireland. The maximum amount of a candidate’s election expenses is made up of a fixed sum (expressed in pounds) plus a sum expressed in pence (and fractions of pence) for each entry in the register of electors.

(1)

1973 c. 36; section 38 was amended by the Northern Ireland Act 1982, Schedule 2, paragraph 6.

(2)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.).

(3)

1962 c. 14 (N.I.); section 42(1) was amended (so far as material) by the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/454), article 9.