Electoral Act 1993

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

206CB: Apportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between parties

You could also call this:

"How to split the cost of election ads between parties"

When you look at an election advertisement that has information from two or more parties, you need to figure out how much each party paid for it. The costs of the advertisement must be divided among the parties based on how much space or time each party gets in the advertisement. You calculate the costs by adding up what each party paid for their part of the advertisement.

If an advertisement has parts from multiple parties, you calculate how much of the advertisement each party gets. You do this by looking at the type of advertisement it is, like a video or a poster. The costs are then divided based on how much of the advertisement each party uses.

Only the costs that are assigned to a party are considered their election expenses. This means that each party is only responsible for the costs that are directly related to their part of the advertisement, as decided by the rules in this section, which was inserted by section 12 of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010.

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Government and voting > Elections

206CA: Apportionment of advertising expenses for publication of party advertisement both before and during regulated period, or

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

206CC: Apportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between party and candidate, or

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

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

206CBApportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between parties

This section applies if an election advertisement comprises 2 or more party advertisements.
If this section applies, the election expenses of the election advertisement must be apportioned among the parties in proportion to the coverage the advertisement provides to each party.
For the purposes of this section,—
election expenses of the election advertisement means the total of the election expenses of all of the party 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 party in accordance with this section are election expenses of that party.

Notes

Section 206CB: inserted, on 1 January 2011, by section 12 of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 137).