Clause 35

Where the principal election agent of any candidate at an election becomes aware of any error or omission in any content contained in any return respecting election expenses which the principal election agent first transmitted under section 56 to the Returning Officer with respect to the candidate and the election (called in this section an original return) —

the principal election agent may apply to the Returning Officer to correct the error or omission in the original return, accompanied by —

a fresh return respecting election expenses annotated with what content in the original return is corrected and how it is corrected; and

a fresh statement and declaration in the prescribed form, made together with the candidate, in relation to the return respecting election expenses annotated under sub‑paragraph (i); and

the Returning Officer must give the principal election agent a reasonable opportunity to correct that error or omission unless subsection (3) applies.(2) To avoid doubt, a principal election agent may make more than one application under this section to correct the original return.(3) However —

no application under subsection (1) may be made; and

no correction may be made with respect to any original return earlier transmitted to the Returning Officer,after the expiry of the time delimited by section 56(1) for the transmission to the Returning Officer of returns respecting election expenses and the statements relating thereto.(4) Every fresh return respecting election expenses by the principal election agent of a candidate and every fresh statement and declaration relating thereto, if transmitted to the Returning Officer according to subsection (1), must be treated for the purposes of this Act as replacing any original return by the principal election agent and any statement and declaration relating to the original return.(5) In this section, “error” has the meaning given by section 82(3).(6) Nothing in this section affects section 70.”.