All candidates standing for the just-held parliamentary elections will have to file their election expenditure returns by no later than February 7.
Deputy Secretary of Election Commission Mihir Sarwar Morshed yesterday said the candidates would have to submit their spending records along with a copy of affidavit to the returning officers of their constituencies, which would then be forwarded to the commission.
According to the electoral laws, all winning and losing candidates and even those winning uncontested must file their expenditure returns within a month of the publication of the gazette notification on election results.
The gazette for the 10th parliamentary poll was published on January 8.
Officials at the commission said a failure to submit the returns in time would be punishable by a maximum jail term of seven years or fine, or both.