Prohibition — incurring partisan advertising expenses, etc.

(1) No electoral district association of a registered party shall

(a) incur partisan advertising expenses in relation to partisan advertising messages that promote or oppose a registered party or an eligible party and that are transmitted during a pre-election period; or

(b) transmit or cause to be transmitted, during a preelection period, partisan advertising messages that promote or oppose a registered party or an eligible party.

Exception

(2) Despite paragraph (1)(a), an electoral district association of a registered party may incur partisan advertising expenses to the extent that the goods or services that the partisan advertising expense is incurred for are

(a) provided to that party, if permitted under paragraph 364(2)(b); or

(b) sold to that party.

Exception

(3) Despite subsection (1), an electoral district association of a registered party may

(a) incur partisan advertising expenses for the transmission of partisan advertising messages referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to the extent that those messages are intended to be transmitted solely, or substantially solely, within the association’s electoral district; and

(b) transmit or cause to be transmitted partisan advertising messages referred to in paragraph (1)(b) to the extent that those messages are transmitted solely, or substantially solely, within the association’s electoral district.

2018, c. 31, s. 271.