Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If, in a financial year, a person makes gifts totalling more than $10,000 to:
(a) the same registered political party; or
(b) the same State branch of a registered political party;
the person must furnish a return to the Electoral Commission within 20 weeks after the end of the financial year, covering all the gifts that the person made to that political party or branch during the financial year.
Note: The dollar amount mentioned in this subsection is indexed under section 321A.
(2) If a person makes a gift to any person or body with the intention of benefiting a particular registered political party or State branch of a registered political party, the person is taken for the purposes of subsection (1) to have made that gift directly to that registered political party or branch.
(3) For each gift, the return must set out the following:
(b) the date on which it was made;
(c) the name and address of the registered political party or branch.
(3A) The return must also set out the relevant details of all gifts received by the person at any time, being gifts used to make gifts the whole or part of which were used to make gifts totalling more than $10,000 in a financial year to the same registered political party or the same State branch of a registered political party and the amount or value of each of which exceeds $10,000.
Note: The dollar amounts mentioned in this subsection are indexed under section 321A.
(3B) Relevant details for the purpose of subsection (3A), in relation to a gift, are:
(a) the amount or value of the gift; and
(b) the date on which the gift was made; and
(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; and
(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; and
(e) in any other case--the name and address of the person who made the gift.
(4) The return must be in the approved form.
(5) This section does not apply to gifts made by any of the following:
(a) a registered political party;
(b) a State branch of a registered political party;
(c) an associated entity;
(d) a candidate in an election;
(e) a member of a group.