New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 69

69 Amount of public funding for eligible independent candidates (or eligible candidates of parties not eligible for public campaign funding)

(cf sections 60 and 103D EFED Act)

(1) This section applies in relation to candidates who are (under section 68) eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund, other than endorsed candidates of a party excluded by section 70.

(2) The amount to be distributed from the Election Campaigns Fund to any such candidate is--

(a) $4 for each first preference vote received in the Assembly general election or by-election for the Assembly by any such candidate in that election or $4.50 for each first preference vote received in the periodic Council election by any such candidate in that election, or

(b) the total amount of the actual campaign expenditure of the candidate,

whichever is the lesser.

(3) Each of the amounts referred to in subsection (2) is an adjustable amount that is to be adjusted for inflation as provided by Schedule 1.