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Electoral Act 1993

Election expenses, donations, and annual financial statements - Donations protected from disclosure

208E: Timing of payment to parties

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"When parties get money from the Electoral Commission during and after elections"

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The Electoral Commission must pay money owed to a party. You get this money weekly during an election, and monthly at other times. This is according to rules set out in section 208D(1).

If a party gets interest on a donation, the Electoral Commission adds this interest to the money they pay to the party. They can also add it to money they return to the donor, or to money they put into a Crown Bank Account, as stated in section 208A(2).

The Electoral Commission follows these rules when paying money to parties, and they must pay the correct amount, including any interest earned.

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Part 6AElection expenses, donations, and annual financial statements
Donations protected from disclosure

208ETiming of payment to parties

  1. The Electoral Commission must pay all outstanding amounts due to a party under section 208D(1)—

  2. weekly, during the period between writ day and the return of the writ, at any general election:
    1. monthly, at any other time.

      1. If any interest is earned on a donation received under section 208A(2) for a party, that interest, so far as it can reasonably be calculated, must be added to—

      2. any sum paid by the Electoral Commission to the secretary of that party; or
        1. any sum returned by the Electoral Commission to the donor; or
          1. any sum paid by the Electoral Commission into a Crown Bank Account.

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            Notes
            • Section 208E: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 1).