Section 24: transitional provision

(1) If controlled expenditure is incurred by or on behalf of a relevant person during anypost-commencement period in relation to which any limit is imposed by Schedule 10 toPPERA (limits on controlled expenditure), no campaign expenditure may be incurredduring that period by or on behalf of the person.
(2) “Relevant person” means a person who, immediately before the commencement date,is both a registered party and a recognised third party.
(3) Where campaign expenditure is incurred by or on behalf of a relevant person incontravention of subsection (1), section 79(2) of PPERA (offence for exceeding limiton campaign expenditure) applies as if campaign expenditure had been incurred inexcess of any limit imposed by Schedule 9 to PPERA (and for this purpose referencesin section 79(2) of PPERA to a registered party are to be read as references to therelevant person in its capacity as a registered party).
(4) See also section 89A of PPERA (inserted by section 26 below), which among otherthings restricts the incurring of controlled expenditure by or on behalf of a registeredparty which is also a third party.
(5) A third party may not give a notification under section 88(4)(b) of PPERA (recognisedthird parties: renewal of original notification) on or after the commencement date ifit is also a registered party.

(6) In this section 

“campaign expenditure” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes ofPart 5 of PPERA (see section 72(2) of that Act); 

“the commencement date” means the date on which this section comes intoforce (and post-commencement, in relation to a period, means beginning onor after that date); “controlled expenditure”, “recognised third party” and “third party” havethe same meaning as they have for the purposes of Part 6 of PPERA (seesection 85 of that Act);

 “registered party” has the same meaning as in PPERA (see section 160(1)of that Act).