thereof, or a member of a local council concurrently holds the post of election campaign manager, etc.,
only the actual expenses may be compensated, and an election campaign manager, etc. reported as a
candidate shall not be paid an allowance and actual expenses from the beginning day of the application for
candidate registration to a day before the beginning day of the election period. <Amended on Feb. 16, 2000;
Jan. 25, 2010; Jul. 28, 2011>
(2) The kinds and amounts of allowances and actual expenses provided in paragraph (1) shall be
prescribed by the National Election Commission Regulations.
(3) No one may offer, or manifest the intention to offer, money and goods or other benefits, or promise,
instruct, solicit, mediate, demand or receive such offer, in connection with the election campaign,
regardless of the title of such offer including allowance and actual expense, or other compensation for
volunteers, etc. except in cases where he or she offers an allowance, actual expenses, and other benefits
prescribed by this Act. <Amended on Feb. 6, 1996; Jan. 13, 1997; Nov. 14, 1997; Feb. 16, 2000>
(4) Deleted. <Aug. 4, 2005>
(5) Deleted. <Feb. 16, 2000>
Article 135-2 (Restriction on Filling Election Expenses)
(1) Every constituency election commission shall not, in filling the election expenses pursuant to this Act,
fill the relevant expenses, in cases where the accountant in charge of the election office failed to submit
the accounting report provided for in Article 40 of the Political Funds Act by the closing day of
submission, without good cause. <Amended on Aug. 4, 2005>
(2) Every constituency election commission shall not, where the candidate, preliminary candidate, election
manager or accountant in charge of the election office committed the crimes provided for in this Act or
Article 49 of the Political Funds Act, with respect to the relevant election, and the judgment of conviction
was finalized, or where the expenses were disbursed in excess of the restricted amount of election
expenses, fill the amount equivalent to two times the expenses required for the relevant offenses or those
disbursed in excess of the restricted amount of election expenses. <Amended on Mar. 12, 2004; Aug. 4, 2005>
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), where a person who had received a donation from by a political party,
a candidate (including a preliminary candidate) or his or her family member, a campaign manager, the
head of an election liaison office, an election worker, a chief accountant or election speechmaker was
punished by an administrative fine under Article 261 (9), the constituency election commission shall not
fill the amount equivalent to five times the expenses incurred in the donation from the expenses to be
compensated for under this Act. <Newly Inserted on Feb. 29, 2008; Jan. 25, 2010; Feb. 13, 2014>
(4) Where those provided for in paragraph (2) are indicted for committing any crime provided for in this
Act or Article 49 of the Political Funds Act or accused by the election commission, the filling of the
amount equivalent to two times the expenses incurred for the relevant offenses shall be deferred until the
sentence is finalized. <Amended on Aug. 4, 2005; Feb. 29, 2008>
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