New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 100

100 Duties of senior office holders of registered parties to report alleged contraventions of this Act

(1) A senior office holder of a registered party who fails, without reasonable excuse, to report to the Electoral Commission any conduct in connection with the party that the office holder knows or reasonably believes constitutes a contravention of this Act is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), it is a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to report conduct under that subsection if the person knows or reasonably believes a report of the conduct has already been made to the Electoral Commission.

(3) A report made to the Electoral Commission under subsection (1) must be in writing.