Elections expenses regulations

(1) The Minister may make regulations20 (a) with respect to the incurring of expense and the expenses making of payments by or on behalf regulations of a candidate, whether before, during or after an election, on account of or in respect of, the conduct or management of such election; (b) requiring the appointment of an election agent through or by whom all expenses or payments as mentioned in paragraph (a) shall be incurred or made; (c) fixing the maximum amount subject to expenses that may be incurred or paid, whether before, during or after an election, on account, or in respect of the conduct or management of such election; (d) fixing the time within which all election expenses shall be paid and barring all claims in respect thereof not made within the prescribed time; and (e) requiring a return of expenses and prescribing the form in which the same shall be made and verified. (2) Contraventions of regulations made under sub-section (1), may be declared by the Minister to be illegal practices, and provision may be made in the said regulations for the punishment on summary conviction, of persons committing or aiding, abetting, inciting, attempting to take part or taking part in the commission of such illegal practices, by– (a) a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars; and 21 (b) disqualification from voting at any election under this Act, the Belize City Council Act, the Representation of the People Act, the Village Councils Act, and from being elected or appointed, as the case may be, as a member of a City Council, Town Council, Village Council or of the National Assembly for a period of three years from the date of his conviction. CAP. 85. CAP. 9. CAP. 88. (3) Regulations made by the Minister pursuant to this section shall be subject to negative resolution. (4) An election petition may be presented in respect of any illegal practice declared by such regulations to be the grounds for the presentation of any such petition.