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Broadcasting Act 1989

Electoral broadcasting - Funding for election programmes and election advertisements in relation to general election

80B: Payment of allocation

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"Getting paid for election programmes and ads"

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You get some money to help pay for election programmes and advertisements. You must give the Electoral Commission all your accounts and any other information they need within 50 working days after the election. The Electoral Commission will pay your accounts from the money they got. If you send your accounts late, the Electoral Commission cannot pay them from your allocated money. The Electoral Commission will pay the accounts they approve from the money they received under section 74(1). Any money left over must be repaid to the Crown. You must follow the rules to get your money. The Electoral Commission has to pay the accounts they think are okay. They use the money from section 79 to pay your accounts.

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Part 6Electoral broadcasting
Funding for election programmes and election advertisements in relation to general election

80BPayment of allocation

  1. A party to which an amount of money is allocated under section 79 must ensure that the Electoral Commission receives, no later than 50 working days after the end of the month in which the election was held,—

  2. all accounts issued to the party in respect of the expenditure by that party of its allocation; and
    1. any information in relation to those accounts that the Electoral Commission requires.

      1. No account that the Electoral Commission receives from a party after the end of the period specified in subsection (1) may be paid by the Electoral Commission, either in part or in full, from the amount of money allocated to that party under section 79.

      2. When the Electoral Commission is satisfied that any account or a part of any account should be paid, the Electoral Commission must, from the money it received under section 74(1), pay to the person who issued the account the amount approved by the Electoral Commission for payment.

      3. An amount of money that has been allocated to a party under section 79 and that is not paid out under subsection (3) must be repaid by the Electoral Commission to the Crown.

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      • Section 80B: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Broadcasting (Election Programmes and Election Advertising) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 8).