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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 314AEC

Annual returns relating to gifts received for political expenditure

             (1)  A person must provide a return for a financial year in accordance with this section if:

                     (a)  the person is required to provide a return for the year under section 314AEB; and

                     (b)  the person received a gift or gifts, at any time, that the person used during the year (either wholly or partly):

                              (i)  to enable the person to incur expenditure for a purpose mentioned in paragraph 314AEB(1)(a); or

                             (ii)  to reimburse the person for incurring expenditure for such a purpose; and

                     (c)  the amount of at least one such gift was more than $10,000.

Note:          The dollar amount mentioned in this subsection is indexed under section 321A.

             (2)  The person must provide to the Electoral Commission a return for the financial year setting out the following details in respect of each gift of more than $10,000 that is mentioned in paragraph (1)(b):

                     (a)  the amount of the gift;

                     (b)  the date on which the gift was made;

                     (c)  in the case of a gift made on behalf of the members of an unincorporated association (other than a registered industrial organisation):

                              (i)  the name of the association; and

                             (ii)  the names and addresses of the members of the executive committee (however described) of the association;

                     (d)  in the case of a gift purportedly made out of a trust fund, or out of the funds of a foundation:

                              (i)  the names and addresses of the trustees of the fund, or of the funds of the foundation; and

                             (ii)  the title or other description of the trust fund, or the name of the foundation, as the case requires;

                     (e)  in any other case--the name and address of the person who made the gift.

Note:          The dollar amount mentioned in this subsection is indexed under section 321A.

             (3)  The return must:

                     (a)  be provided before the end of 20 weeks after the end of the financial year; and

                     (b)  be in the approved form.

             (4)  For the purposes of subsection (2), 2 or more gifts made, during the financial year, by the same person to another person are taken to be one gift.



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