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Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962

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43Time for sending in and paying claims.N.I.

(1)Every claim against a candidate or his election agent in respect of expenses at [F1 an election] which is not sent into the election agent within fourteen days after the day on which the result of the election is declared shall be barred and not paid.[F2 At a local election, this subsection, subsection (3) and section 44(4) shall have effect as if for the word fourteen there were substituted twenty‐one.]

(2)All such election expenses shall be paid within twenty-eight days after the said day.

(3)The High Court or the county court, on an application by the claimant or the candidate or his election agent, may on cause shown to the satisfaction of the court by order grant leave for the payment of a claim for any expenses at [F1 an election] although sent in—

(a)after the said period of fourteen days; or

(b)to the candidate and not to the election agent;

and any sum paid by the candidate or election agent in pursuance of such an order shall be deemed to have been paid in compliance with sub-section (2).

Subs.(4) rep. by 1978 c.23

F2SI 1987/168

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