Broadcasting Act 1989

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

80F: Recovery of money from party

You could also call this:

"Paying back money to the government for election programmes"

You can get money for election programmes and advertisements. If the Electoral Commission changes how much money you get, they can ask you to pay some of it back to the government. The Electoral Commission will tell you and the Secretary for Justice how much you need to pay back. You have to pay the money back to the government. The Secretary for Justice can take the money from you if you do not pay it back. They can do this because the money you have to pay back is a debt to the government. The Electoral Commission will give you and the Secretary for Justice a copy of their decision. This decision will say how much money you need to pay back to the government. You will know how much you have to pay back because it will be written in the decision.

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80E: Return of party’s allocation expenses, or

"Parties must report their allocation expenses to the Electoral Commission"

80G: Procedure in relation to early elections, or

"What happens with elections when Parliament ends early"

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

80FRecovery of money from party

Where effect has been given in whole or in part to an allocation made under section 79 and the Electoral Commission, acting under section 80, varies that allocation, the Electoral Commission may determine that all or part of the money paid on behalf of a party as a result of that allocation be repaid to the Crown by the party.
Where the Electoral Commission makes a determination under subsection (1),—
the Electoral Commission must give a copy of that determination to both the party secretary and the Secretary for Justice; and
the Secretary for Justice may recover from the party as a debt due to the Crown the amount specified in the determination as being repayable to the Crown by the party.

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s 76B

Notes

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