Section 57
Publication of receipt of return, etc.
of Presidential Elections Act 1991
(1)
When the Returning Officer receives any return respecting election expenses and the statements made in respect thereof, the Returning Officer must, as soon as possible, cause a notice of the date on which the return and statements in question were received by him or her and of the time and place at which they can be inspected to be fixed in some conspicuous place in his or her office and published in the Gazette.
(2)
The Returning Officer must —
preserve all such returns and statements with the bills and vouchers relating thereto;
at all reasonable times during 6 months next after the publication in the Gazette of the notice mentioned in this section, permit any person to inspect them and to make extracts therefrom on payment of a prescribed fee; and
on payment of another prescribed fee, supply a copy or copies of any part thereof.
(3)
After the end of that period of 6 months, those documents may be destroyed or returned to the candidate if application for their return is made by the candidate before they are destroyed.