37Vouching for election campaign expenditure in claim for Part 4 payment

37 Vouching for election campaign expenditure in claim for Part 4 payment

37 Vouching for election campaign expenditure in claim for Part 4 payment

(1) For the purposes of section 75 of the Act, the prescribed manner of vouching for expenditure specified in a claim for a Part 4 payment is—

(a) by the party agent for the party or the candidate attaching to the claim the relevant Part 3 declaration or a copy of the declaration, or, if the claim is required to be lodged before the relevant Part 3 declaration is required to be lodged, copies of the accounts or receipts (or a mixture of both) issued in respect of the expenditure, and

(b) if the amount claimed exceeds the amount of expenditure vouched for under paragraph (a), by the party agent or the candidate attaching to the claim the copies of either the accounts or receipts (or a mixture of both) issued in respect of so much of the expenditure not vouched for under that paragraph as in aggregate at least equals the excess amount.

(2) An account or receipt is to be disregarded for the purposes of this clause if it does not set out such particulars as are sufficient to identify clearly the nature of the expenditure to which it relates.