section 77
Account of election expenses and maximum thereof
The Representation of the People Act, 1951Chapter VIII CHAPTER VIII.--Election Expenses
Account of election expenses and maximum thereof. (ii) where such political party is other than a recognised political party, such persons not exceeding twenty in number, whose names have been communicated to the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officers of the States by the political party to be leaders for the purposes of such election, within a period of seven days from the date of the notification for such election published in the Gazette of India or Official Gazette of the State, as the case may be, under this Act: Provided that a political party may, in the case where any of the persons referred to in clause (i) or, as the case may be, in clause (ii) dies or ceases to be a member of such political party, by further communication to the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officers of the States, substitute new name, during the period ending immediately before forty-eight hours ending with the hour fixed for the conclusion of the last poll for such election, for the name of such person died or ceased to be a member, for the purposes of designating the new leader in his place.] (2) The account shall contain such particular, as may be prescribed. (3) The total of the said expenditure shall not exceed such amount as may be prescribed.
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