returning officer the name of one person who will act as their election agent. This person is legally responsible for the conduct of the candidate's political campaign. In the case of a group of candidates contesting a GRC, a principal election agent must be appointed from among the candidates' election agents. Candidates may name themselves as their own election agents. Election agents are required to appoint candidates' paid polling agents (persons who oversee polling at polling stations on behalf of candidates), clerks and messengers; hire committee rooms for the use of candidates; pay for expenses incurred for the conduct or management of the election; and receive money from third parties for election expenses. Election expenses, and illegal and corrupt practices The maximum amount which a candidate or their election agent can pay or incur for an election campaign is $4 for each elector in an SMC, or for each elector divided by the number of candidates in the group standing for election in a GRC. The following expenses are illegal practices: Paying to bring voters to or from the poll, except if certain voters need to cross the sea or a river to reach a polling station. Letting, lending, employing, hiring or borrowing a motor vehicle to bring voters to or from the poll. Paying any voter for the use of a house, land, building or premises for exhibiting any address, bill or notice, unless that voter's ordinary business is that of an advertising agent. The penalty for committing in illegal practice is a fine of up to $2,000 and barred from being registered as an elector or participating in the election for three years within the date of conviction; if the person has been elected an MP prior to conviction, the seat is also vacated. The following acts are corrupt practices: Bribery. Committing an act of bribery involves doing any one of a number of acts to induce a person to vote or refrain from voting or to reward them for having done so, such as giving or lending money; and giving or procuring an office or employment. It is also bribery for a person to procure or promise to procure that a voter exercise their vote in a certain way or that a candidate be elected as an MP in return for some inducement; to give money to someone else, knowing that they will use the money for