Cap. 363 чл. 95Periodsforsending in claims and making payments for election expenses.

(1) Every payment made by a candidate in respect of any expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of an election shall, except where less than fifty-eight euro and twenty-three cents (€58.23), be vouched for by a bill stating the particulars and by a receipt:

Provided that the Minister may, from time to time, by notice in the Gazette specify higher sums which in no case shall exceed two hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (€232.94).

(2) Every claim against a candidate at an election in respect of any expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election, which is not sent in to the candidate within the time limited by these regulations, shall be barred and shall not be paid; and subject to such exception as may be allowed in pursuance of these regulations, a candidate who pays a claim in contravention of this regulation shall be guilty of an illegal practice.

(3) Except as by these regulations permitted, the time limited by these regulations for sending in claims shall be thirty days after the day on which the candidate returned is declared elected.

(4) All expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at an election, which are incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election, shall be paid within the time limited by these regulations and not otherwise; and, subject to such exception as may be allowed in pursuance of these regulations, a candidate who makes a payment in contravention of this provision shall be guilty of an illegal practice.

(5) Except as by these regulations permitted, the time limited by these regulations for the payment of such expenses as aforesaid shall be forty days after the day on which the candidate returned is declared elected.

(6) If the candidate in the case of any claim sent in to him within the time limited by these regulations disputes it, or refuses or fails to pay it within the said period of forty days, such claim shall be deemed to be a disputed claim.

(7) The claimant may, if he thinks fit, bring an action for a disputed claim in the competent Civil Court; and any sum paid by the candidate in pursuance of the judgment or order of such court shall be deemed to be paid within the time limited by these regulations.

(8) On cause shown to the satisfaction of the competent Civil Court, the court on application by the claimant or by the candidate may, by order, give leave for the payment by a candidate of a disputed claim, or of a claim for any such expenses as aforesaid, although sent in after the time in this regulation mentioned for sending in claims, or although the same was sent in to the candidate.

(9) Any sum specified in any such order may be paid by the candidate, and when paid in pursuance of such leave shall be deemed to be paid within the time limited by these regulations.