Prohibition — partisan advertising expenses more than maximum amount

(1) No chief agent of a registered party shall incur partisan advertising expenses on the party’s behalf of a total amount of more than the maximum amount calculated under section 429.1.

Prohibition — circumventing maximum amount

(2) No registered party shall circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, that maximum amount in any manner, including by acting in collusion with a potential candidate for the purpose of his or her engaging in partisan advertising so that the combined total of the following exceeds the maximum amount:

(a) the potential candidate’s partisan advertising expenses that relate to the partisan advertising engaged in in collusion with the party; and

(b) the party’s partisan advertising expenses.

Prohibition — collusion by third party

(3) No third party, within the meaning of paragraph (a.1) of the definition third party in section 349, shall act in collusion with a registered party for the purpose of the registered party’s circumventing that maximum amount.

2018, c. 31, s. 262.