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ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 20

Electoral expenditure required to be disclosed

20 Electoral expenditure required to be disclosed

(cf section 93 EFED Act)

(1) All electoral expenditure is required to be disclosed under this Part (whether or not it is incurred during the capped State expenditure period or capped local government expenditure period for an election).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the obligation under this Part to disclose any such expenditure of a party in relation to a relevant disclosure period can be complied with by lodging with the Electoral Commission a copy of a return furnished to the Australian Electoral Commission by the agent of the party under section 314AB of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 of the Commonwealth in respect of that period.
(3) Subsection (2) has effect only if the return furnished to the Australian Electoral Commission contains the information required by section 18(1) and (2).
Note : Section 18(1) contains a requirement that a disclosure of electoral expenditure under this Part must separately identify, and provide details of, each individual item of expenditure. Section 18(2) contains a requirement that a disclosure of electoral expenditure under this Part, in relation to an Assembly general election, is to include, as far as possible, details of electoral expenditure incurred substantially for the purposes of the election in a particular electoral district.



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