Electoral Act 1992

The capped expenditure period, for an election, starts—

for an ordinary general election—on the first business day after the last Saturday in the preceding March; or

for an extraordinary general election—

if the capped expenditure period for an ordinary general election has started under paragraph (a)—the day that capped expenditure period started; or

otherwise—the day the writ for the election is issued; or

for a by-election—the day the writ for the election is issued.

The capped expenditure period, for an election, ends at 6p.m. on the later of—

the polling day for the election; or

if the poll at a polling booth for an election is adjourned under section 99B(3) or 100(1)—the day the adjourned poll is held.

Subsection (2)(b) applies despite section 100(6).

In this section—preceding March, in relation to an ordinary general election, means the March that occurs in the same calendar year as the normal polling day for the general election.