Electoral Act 1993

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

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

You could also call this:

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

When you look at an election advertisement, it might be promoting both a party and a candidate. If an advertisement does this, the costs of the advertisement must be split between the party and the candidate. The costs are split based on how much the advertisement promotes the party and how much it promotes the candidate.

The costs of the advertisement include the expenses for both the party and the candidate parts of the advertisement. You calculate the promotion of the party and the candidate based on the type of advertisement it is. For example, if it is a television advertisement, you would consider how much of the advertisement is about the party and how much is about the candidate.

Only the costs that are allocated to the party are considered the party's election expenses. You can find more information about how this rule was introduced by looking at the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010.

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Government and voting > Elections

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

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

206D: Offence to pay election expenses in excess of prescribed maximum, or

"Paying too much for election expenses can get you in trouble"

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

206CCApportionment of election expenses of election advertisement between party and candidate

This section applies if an election advertisement comprises both—
a party advertisement; and
a candidate advertisement.

If this section applies, the election expenses of the election advertisement must be apportioned between the party and the candidate in proportion to the coverage the advertisement provides to the party and to the candidate.
For the purpose of this section,—
election expenses of the election advertisement means the advertising expenses incurred in relation to both the candidate advertisement and the party 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 election advertisement.

Only the expenses apportioned to the party in accordance with this section are election expenses of the party.

Notes

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