New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 68

68 Candidates eligible for public funding of election campaigns

(cf section 59 EFED Act)

(1) Candidates are, subject to and in accordance with this Act, eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund in respect of a State election.

(2) A candidate who is duly nominated for a State election is eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund in respect of the election if--

(a) the candidate is registered in the Register of Candidates for the election on the election day for the election, and

(b) in the case of a candidate for a periodic Council election, the candidate was not included in a group, or was included in a group none of whose members were endorsed by a party, and

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

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

(a) in the case of an Assembly general election or by-election for the Assembly--the candidate is elected or the total number of first preference votes received by the candidate is at least 4% of the total number of first preference votes in the electoral district in which the candidate was duly nominated for election,

(b) in the case of a periodic Council election--the candidate is elected or the total number of first preference votes received by the candidate (and, if included in a group, by all other candidates included in the same group) is at least 4% of the total number of first preference votes in the election.