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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 314AEC

Annual returns relating to gifts received by third parties for electoral expenditure

  (1)   A person or entity must provide a return for a financial year in accordance with this section if:

  (a)   the person or entity is required to provide a return for the year under section   314AEB (annual returns by third parties); and

  (b)   the person or entity received a gift or gifts, at any time, that the person or entity used during the year (either wholly or partly):

  (i)   to enable the person or entity to incur electoral expenditure; or

  (ii)   to reimburse the person or entity for incurring electoral expenditure; and

  (c)   either:

  (i)   the amount of at least one such gift was more than the disclosure threshold; or

  (ii)   the total amount of all gifts received by the person from at least one single person during the financial year was more than the disclosure threshold.

Note:   The return required under this section must be included in the return provided under section   314AEB (see paragraph   314AEB(3)(c)).

  (2)   The person must provide to the Electoral Commission a return for the financial year setting out the following details:

  (a)   for subparagraph   (1)(c)(i):

  (i)   the amount of each gift covered by that subparagraph; and

  (ii)   the date on which the gift was made;

  (b)   for subparagraph   (1)(c)(ii):

  (i)   the total amount of gifts made by each single person who is covered by that subparagraph; and

  (ii)   the date on which each of those gifts were made; and

  (c)   in any case:

  (i)   for a gift or gifts on behalf of the members of an unincorporated association (other than a registered industrial organisation)--the name of the association, and the names and addresses of the members of the executive committee (however described) of the association; or

  (ii)   for a gift or gifts purportedly made out of a trust fund, or out of the funds of a foundation--the names and addresses of the trustees of the fund or foundation, and the title, name or other description of the trust fund or foundation; or

  (iii)   for any other gift or gifts--the name and address of the person who made the gift or gifts.


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