Broadcasting Act 1989

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

80C: Apportionment of publishing costs incurred in relation to election advertisements published both before and during election period

You could also call this:

"Paying for election ads on the internet before and during elections"

You need to know about election advertisements on the Internet. If an election advertisement is published for a party or a candidate on the Internet before and during the election period, this rule applies to you. You can only use money allocated under section 79 to pay for the costs of publishing the advertisement during the election period.

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80B: Payment of allocation, or

"Getting paid for election programmes and ads"

80D: Cost funded from party allocation not party election expense, or

"Some election costs are paid from party funds and don't count as election expenses."

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

80CApportionment of publishing costs incurred in relation to election advertisements published both before and during election period

This section applies if an election advertisement is published for a party or a candidate on the Internet both before the commencement of the election period and during the election period.
If this section applies, only the publishing costs attributable to the publication of the election advertisement during the election period are payable from money allocated under section 79.

Notes

Section 80C: inserted, on 21 March 2017, by section 4 of the Broadcasting (Election Programmes and Election Advertising) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 8).