Commentary on Sections Schedule 3: Controlled expenditure: qualifying expenses Section 31: Extension of power to vary specified sums
100.This section amends section 155 of PPERA to allow the Secretary of State (or, by virtue of section 159A of that Act, the Lord President of the Council) to amend, by order, the percentages set out in section 94(5ZA), section 96(2)(aa) and paragraph 2A of Schedule 10 (which sets the limits for controlled expenditure in an individual constituency during the regulated period of a UK Parliamentary General election), in new section 94D of PPERA, (which sets out the limit for targeted expenditure) and in paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 10, (which sets the limits for controlled expenditure in each part of the United Kingdom). The Secretary of State can only amend the percentages upon the recommendation of the Electoral Commission.