Can candidates and groups pay for electoral expenditure with their own funds?
If a candidate or group is required to have a campaign account and they want to use their own funds to cover electoral expenditure, then they must deposit their own funds into that campaign account. Only the official agent can make payments for electoral expenditure from the campaign account. Candidates and groups can be reimbursed for money they paid into the account using the funds in the campaign account. If a candidate or group is not required to have a campaign account then they may pay for electoral expenditure using their own funds. All electoral expenditure must be disclosed in a disclosure lodged by a candidate or group (or their official agent).
