F-2 - Act to govern the financing of political parties

Section 101 Disposition versions

1982-06-30

101. (1)  In this chapter, the expression “election expenses” means all the expenditures incurred during an election period to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, the election of a candidate or that of the candidates of a party or to propagate or oppose the programme or policy of a candidate or party or to approve or disapprove the steps recommended or opposed by them or the things done or proposed by them or their supporters. In this section the word “candidate” includes any person who subsequently becomes or is likely to become a candidate.

(2)  The following shall not be deemed election expenses:

(a)  the publishing in a newspaper of other periodical of editorials, news, reports or letters to the editor, provided that they are published in the same manner and under the same rules as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or reward, that the newspaper or other periodical is not established for the purposes of the election or with a view to the election and that the circulation and frequency of publication thereof do not differ from what obtains outside the election period;

(b)  the transmission by a radio or television station of a broadcast of news or comment, provided that such broadcast be made in the same manner and under the same regulations as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or of reward;

(c)  the necessary cost of holding a convention in an electoral division for the selection of a candidate; such necessary cost includes the cost of renting a hall and the convening of delegates, but it shall not include any publicity nor exceed $3 000;

(c.1)  the reasonable expenses of a candidate for attending a convention to choose a candidate for an electoral division, excluding any cost of publicity;

(d)  the reasonable expenses incurred by a candidate or any other person, out of his own money, for this lodging and food during a journey for election purposes, if such expenses are not reimbursed to him;

(e)  the transportation costs of a candidate, if not subject to reimbursement;

(f)  the transportation costs of any person other than a candidate, paid out of his own money, if such costs are not reimbursed to him;

(g)  (paragraph repealed);

(h)  the reasonable expenses incurred for the publication of explanatory commentaries on the Election Act and the instructions issued under its authority, provided that such commentaries are stricly objective and contain no publicity of such a nature as to favour or oppose a candidate or a party;

(i)  the reasonable expenses usually incurred for the current operation of not over two permanent offices of the party whose address is entered in the registers of the director general;

(j)  interest accrued between the beginning of the election period and the ninetieth day following the polling day, on any loan lawfully granted to an official representative for election expense purposes, unless the official agent has paid the interest and declared it as an election expense in his return of election expenses.

(3)  The expenditures incurred before an election period for literature, objects or materials of an advertising nature, used during the election period for the purposes contemplated by the definition of the expression “election expenses”, are election expenses. These expenses are deemed to have been made by the official agent during the election period if he authorized that use.

1977, c. 11, s. 101; 1979, c. 56, s. 299, s. 308; 1982, c. 31, s. 33.

1980-07-10

101. (1)  In this chapter, the expression “election expenses” means all the expenditures incurred during an election period to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, the election of a candidate or that of the candidates of a party or to propagate or oppose the programme or policy of a candidate or party or to approve or disapprove the steps recommended or opposed by them or the things done or proposed by them or their supporters. In this section the word “candidate” includes any person who subsequently becomes or is likely to become a candidate.

(2)  The following shall not be deemed election expenses:

(a)  the publishing in a newspaper of other periodical of editorials, news, reports or letters to the editor, provided that they are published in the same manner and under the same rules as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or reward, that the newspaper or other periodical is not established for the purposes of the election or with a view to the election and that the circulation and frequency of publication thereof do not differ from what obtains outside the election period;

(b)  the transmission by a radio or television station of a broadcast of news or comment, provided that such broadcast be made in the same manner and under the same regulations as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or of reward;

(c)  the necessary cost of holding a convention in an electoral division for the selection of a candidate; such necessary cost must include the reasonable expenses of the candidates at such convention, the cost of renting a hall and the convening of delegates, but it cannot include any publicity and, excluding the expenses of candidates other than the candidate selected, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars;

(d)  the reasonable expenses incurred by a candidate or any other person, out of his own money, for this lodging and food during a journey for election purposes, if such expenses are not reimbursed to him;

(e)  the transportation costs of a candidate, if not subject to reimbursement;

(f)  the transportation costs of any person other than a candidate, paid out of his own money, if such costs are not reimbursed to him;

(g)  repealed;

(h)  the reasonable expenses incurred for the publication of explanatory commentaries on the Election Act and the instructions issued under its authority, provided that such commentaries are stricly objective and contain no publicity of such a nature as to favour or oppose a candidate or a party;

(i)  the reasonable expenses usually incurred for the current operation of the permanent office of a recognized party on the island of Montréal and in the city of Québec, if the leader of such party, before the seventh day following the issue of the writs, has given written notice to the director general of the existence of such office, of its exact address and of any change of address.

For the purposes of subparagraph i, the permanent office of a recognized party is the office where, in order to ensure dissemination of the political programme of such party and to coordinate the political activity of its members, employees of the party or of a body associated therewith work on a permanent basis outside the election period, for the attainment of its objects, and which the leader of the party has recognized for such purpose by a letter sent to the director general before the seventh day following the issue of the writs;

(j)  interest accrued from the thirty-first day following the polling, on any loan lawfully granted to an official agent for election expense purposes in so far as they are not reimbursed.

(3)  The expenditures incurred before an election for literature, objects or materials of an advertising nature, used during the election for the purposes contemplated by the definition of the expression “election expenses”, are election expenses.

1977, c. 11, s. 101; 1979, c. 56, s. 299, s. 308.

1978-04-01

101. (1)  In this chapter, the expression “election expenses” means all the expenditures incurred during an election period to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, the election of a candidate or that of the candidates of a party or to propagate or oppose the programme or policy of a candidate or party or to approve or disapprove the steps recommended or opposed by them or the things done or proposed by them or their supporters. In this section the word “candidate” includes any person who subsequently becomes or is likely to become a candidate.

(2)  The following shall not be deemed election expenses:

(a)  the publishing in a newspaper of other periodical of editorials, news, reports or letters to the editor, provided that they are published in the same manner and under the same rules as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or reward, that the newspaper or other periodical is not established for the purposes of the election or with a view to the election and that the circulation and frequency of publication thereof do not differ from what obtains outside the election period;

(b)  the transmission by a radio or television station of a broadcast of news or comment, provided that such broadcast be made in the same manner and under the same regulations as outside the election period, without payment, reward or promise of payment or of reward;

(c)  the necessary cost of holding a convention in an electoral district for the selection of a candidate; such necessary cost must include the reasonable expenses of the candidates at such convention, the cost of renting a hall and the convening of delegates, but it cannot include any publicity and, excluding the expenses of candidates other than the candidate selected, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars;

(d)  the reasonable expenses incurred by a candidate or any other person, out of his own money, for this lodging and food during a journey for election purposes, if such expenses are not reimbursed to him;

(e)  the transportation costs of a candidate, if not subject to reimbursement;

(f)  the transportation costs of any person other than a candidate, paid out of his own money, if such costs are not reimbursed to him;

(g)  the sum deposited with the nomination-paper;

(h)  the reasonable expenses incurred for the publication of explanatory commentaries on the Election Act and the instructions issued under its authority, provided that such commentaries are stricly objective and contain no publicity of such a nature as to favour or oppose a candidate or a party;

(i)  the reasonable expenses usually incurred for the current operation of the permanent office of a recognized party on the island of Montréal and in the city of Québec, if the leader of such party, before the seventh day following the issue of the writs, has given written notice to the director general of the existence of such office, of its exact address and of any change of address.

For the purposes of subparagraph i, the permanent office of a recognized party is the office where, in order to ensure dissemination of the political programme of such party and to coordinate the political activity of its members, employees of the party or of a body associated therewith work on a permanent basis outside the election period, for the attainment of its objects, and which the leader of the party has recognized for such purpose by a letter sent to the director general before the seventh day following the issue of the writs;

(j)  interest accrued from the thirty-first day following the polling, on any loan lawfully granted to an official agent for election expense purposes in so far as they are not reimbursed.

(3)  The expenditures incurred before an election for literature, objects or materials of an advertising nature, used during the election for the purposes contemplated by the definition of the expression “election expenses”, are election expenses.

1977, c. 11, s. 101.