7 Expenditure in connection with elections
Scotland Act 2016 (2016 c 11) | Legislation

7  Expenditure in connection with elections

(1)     The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 is amended as follows.

(2)     After section 72 (campaign expenditure) insert—

“72A Campaign expenditure: power of Scottish Ministers

(1)     The powers under the following provisions of Schedule 8 are exercisable by the Scottish Ministers instead of the Secretary of State, so far as they relate to polls at elections for membership of the Scottish Parliament—

(a)     paragraph 3(3) (power to approve a draft code of practice prepared by the Electoral Commission),

(b)     paragraph 3(7) (power to appoint day when code comes into force), and

(c)     paragraph 4(1) (power to amend Part 1 of Schedule 8).

(2)     For the purposes of the exercise by the Scottish Ministers of the powers mentioned in subsection (1), paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 8 apply—

(a)     as if any reference to the Secretary of State were a reference to the Scottish Ministers,

(b)     as if any reference to “each House of Parliament”, “each House”, “either House”, “both Houses” or “Parliament” were a reference to the Scottish Parliament,

(c)     as if in paragraph 3(9) for the words from “means—” to the end there were substituted “means the period of 40

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