Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 505
ELECTORAL COMMISSION
The Electoral Commission (Limit on Public Awareness Expenditure) Order 2002
Made
4th March 2002
Laid before Parliament
11th March 2002
Coming into force
1st April 2002
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 13(6) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order with the consent of the Treasury:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Electoral Commission (Limit on Public Awareness Expenditure) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
Specification of sum
2. The sum of £7,500,000 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 13(6) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (sum which the Electoral Commission’s total expenditure incurred in any financial year in performing their functions under section 13(1) of that Act must not exceed).
Revocation
3. The Electoral Commission (Limit on Public Awareness Expenditure) Order 2001( 2 ) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Alan Whitehead
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
28th February 2002
We consent to the making of this Order
John Heppell
Tony McNulty
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
4th March 2002
S.I. 2001/1329 .