Victorian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2002 - SECT 207GA

    (1)     Subject to this section and section 207GB, the following are eligible to receive an annual amount of administrative expenditure funding as follows—

        (a)     for an independent elected member, an amount of $200 000;

        (b)     for a registered political party, an amount of—

              (i)     $200 000 for the first elected member; and

              (ii)     $70 000 for the second elected member; and

              (iii)     $35 000 for each of the third to the forty-fifth elected members.

    (2)     The Commission must make payments of administrative expenditure funding under this section quarterly in advance.

    (3)     In an election quarter, the Commission must make payments of administrative expenditure funding—

        (a)     in advance on a pro-rata basis for the period—

              (i)     beginning on 1 October of that year; and

              (ii)     ending in the day of the general election; and

        (b)     in arrears on a pro-rata basis for the period—

              (i)     beginning on the day after the day of the general election; and

              (ii)     ending on 31 December in that year.

    (4)     The entitlement to receive a quarterly payment of administrative expenditure funding is to be calculated on a pro-rata basis for—

        (a)     each day in the quarter that an elected member is an independent elected member; or

        (b)     each day in the quarter that an elected member is a member of a registered political party.

    (5)     In a scheduled general election period—

        (a)     an independent elected member only has an entitlement under subsection (1) if the independent elected member subsequently nominates as a candidate under section 69 and stands for election to the Parliament of Victoria at the general election; and

        (b)     a registered political party only has an entitlement under subsection (1) in respect of each elected member of the registered political party who subsequently nominates as a candidate under section 69 and stands for election to the Parliament of Victoria at the general election as an endorsed candidate of that registered political party.

    (6)     Despite subsection (3), the first payment of administrative expenditure funding is to be—

        (a)     payable from 1 August 2018; and

        (b)     paid on a pro-rata basis for the period commencing on 1 August 2018 and ending on 30 September 2018.

S. 207GB inserted by No. 30/2018 s. 47(2).