Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Prohibition — incurring election expenses

• 450 (1) No electoral district association of a registered party shall incur election expenses.

• Marginal note:Election expenses — electoral district associations

  (1.1) For the purposes of subsection (1),

  • (a) election expense has the meaning given to that expression by subsection 376(1), except that the reference to “a registered party or a candidate” is to be read as a reference to “an electoral district association”; and

  • (b) subsections 376(2) to (4) apply, other than paragraph 376(3)(c), except that the reference to “a registered party or a candidate” in subsection 376(4) is to be read as a reference to “an electoral district association”.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (1.2) Despite subsection (1), an electoral district association of a registered party may incur an election expense to the extent that the property or service that the cost was incurred for or the non-monetary contribution was received for — or the goods or services that were accepted — are

  • (a) provided to that party, a registered association of that party or a candidate endorsed by that party, if permitted under paragraph 364(2)(b); or

  • (b) sold to that party or a candidate endorsed by that party.

• Marginal note:Uncancellable transmission

  (2) In the case of a general election that is not held on a day set in accordance with subsection 56.1(2) or section 56.2, or of a by-election, an electoral district association is deemed not to have incurred an election expense for election advertising if, on the issue of the writ or writs, it is not able to cancel the transmission of the election advertising message that the expense is in relation to.