Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Quarterly allowance

• 445 (1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall determine, for each quarter of a calendar year, an allowance payable to a registered party whose candidates for the most recent general election preceding that quarter received at that election at least

  • (a) 2% of the number of valid votes cast; or

  • (b) 5% of the number of valid votes cast in the electoral districts in which the registered party endorsed a candidate.

• Marginal note:Computation of fund

  (2) An allowance fund for a quarter is the product of the number of valid votes cast in the election referred to in subsection (1) multiplied by the applicable following number:

  • (a) $0.255, for the quarter that begins on April 1, 2013 and the three following quarters; and

  • (b) $0.1275, for the quarter that begins on April 1, 2014 and the three following quarters.

• Marginal note:Computation of party’s allowance

  (3) Each such registered party’s allowance for a quarter is that part of the allowance fund for that quarter that corresponds to its percentage of valid votes cast in the election referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Merger of parties

  (4) A merged party is entitled to the aggregate of the allowances to which the merging parties of which it is composed would have been entitled had they not merged.