Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Payment to candidate

477.741 The official agent shall use any amount received under subsection 477.73(2), or received under both that subsection and subsection 477.74(4), to pay to the candidate the amount that is the sum of

• (a) 60% of the candidate’s personal expenses, as set out in their electoral campaign return, other than childcare expenses and expenses referred to in any of paragraphs 378(1)(c) to (e), that were paid other than from the bank account referred to in subsection 477.46(1),

• (b) 90% of the total of the candidate’s childcare expenses and expenses referred to in paragraphs 378(1)(c) and (d), as set out in their electoral campaign return, that were paid other than from the bank account referred to in subsection 477.46(1), and

• (c) 65% of the total of the candidate’s expenses referred to in paragraph 378(1)(e) — to a maximum of $3,250 — as set out in their electoral campaign return, that were paid other than from the bank account referred to in subsection 477.46(1).