New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 66

66 Registered parties eligible for public funding of election campaigns

(cf section 57 EFED Act)

(1) Parties are, subject to and in accordance with this Act, eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund in respect of a State election (other than a by-election for the Assembly).

(2) A party is eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund in respect of any such State election if--

(a) it is a registered party on the election day for the State election, and

(b) it endorses candidates who are duly nominated for the State election and the Electoral Commission is satisfied that the candidates claim to be endorsed by the party, and

(c) it satisfies at least one of the party eligibility criteria.

(3) The party eligibility criteria are as follows--

(a) in the case of an Assembly general election--the total number of first preference votes received by all those candidates endorsed by a party is at least 4% of the total number of first preference votes in all electoral districts in which the candidates were duly nominated for election,

(b) in the case of a periodic Council election--the total number of first preference votes received by all those candidates endorsed by a party (and by all other candidates included in the same group) is at least 4% of the total number of first preference votes in that election,

(c) in the case of any election--at least one of those candidates endorsed by a party is elected at the State election.