Electoral Act 1993

Election expenses, donations, and annual financial statements - Election expenses of candidates

205E: Apportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between candidates

You could also call this:

"How to share the costs of election ads between candidates"

If you are looking at an election advertisement that has information about two or more candidates, this law applies to you. The costs of making the advertisement must be divided among the candidates based on how much of the advertisement is about each candidate. You calculate the costs by adding up what it cost to make each part of the advertisement about a candidate, and this total is called the election expenses of the election advertisement.

You work out how much of the advertisement is about each candidate in a way that makes sense for the type of advertisement it is. Only the costs that are assigned to a candidate are considered their election expenses.

You can find more information about changes to this law in section 8 of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010.

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205D: Apportionment of advertising expenses for publication of candidate advertisement both before and during regulated period, or

"How to fairly split costs of election ads published before and during the election period"

205EA: Apportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between candidate and party, or

"How election ad costs are shared between candidates and parties"

Part 6AElection expenses, donations, and annual financial statements
Election expenses of candidates

205EApportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between candidates

This section applies if an election advertisement comprises 2 or more candidate advertisements.
If this section applies, the election expenses of the election advertisement must be apportioned among the candidates in proportion to the coverage the advertisement provides to each candidate.
For the purposes of this section,—
election expenses of the election advertisement means the total of the election expenses of all of the candidate advertisements comprised in the election advertisement; and
the coverage provided by an election advertisement must be calculated in such a manner as is appropriate in relation to the form of the advertisement.

Only the expenses apportioned to a candidate in accordance with this section are election expenses of that candidate.

Notes

Section 205E: substituted, on 1 January 2011, by section 8 of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 137).