Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL ACT 2011 - SECT 217B

217B Disclosure obligations for candidates—loans

(1) This section applies to a person who—

(a) immediately before the commencement, was not a candidate; and

(b) on the commencement, is a candidate.

(2) For part 6, the disclosure period for the person is taken to start on the commencement.

(3) Within 14 days after the commencement, the person must give a return under section 120(2) and (7), as in force immediately before the commencement, for the person’s pre-commencement disclosure period.

(4) For applying section 120—

(a) a reference to a candidate is taken to be a reference to the person; and

(b) a reference to the required period is taken to be a reference to the period starting on the commencement and ending 14 days after the commencement; and

(c) a reference to the disclosure date is taken to be a reference to the day that is 14 days after the commencement; and

(d) a reference to the disclosure period is taken to be a reference to the person’s pre-commencement disclosure period.

(5) However, subsection (3) does not apply—

(a) to the person if, before the commencement, a disclosure period would not have started under section 114 or 115 as in force immediately before the commencement, as applied under subsection (7), definition
"pre-commencement disclosure period" , paragraph (a); or

(b) in relation to a loan that is the subject of a return given to the electoral commission under part 6 before the commencement.

(6) Part 9, division 5 applies in relation to the person as if—

(a) a reference in the division to part 6 included a reference to this section; and

(b) a reference in the division to section 120 included a reference to this section.

(7) In this section—

"pre-commencement disclosure period" , for a person who, on the commencement, is a candidate, means the period—

(a) starting when the disclosure period would have started for the person under section 114 or 115 as in force immediately before the commencement—

(i) if the person were a candidate for those sections; and

(ii) as if a reference in those sections to an election were a reference to the election for which the person is, on the commencement, a candidate; and

(b) ending immediately before the commencement.