Electoral Act 1993

Election expenses, donations, and annual financial statements - Election expenses of registered promoters

206Z: Procedure if claim disputed

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"What happens if someone disagrees with your claim for election expenses and won't pay?"

If you are a claimant and a registered promoter disputes your claim for election expenses or does not pay it within 40 working days, your claim is treated as a disputed claim. You can then take the registered promoter to court within 20 working days after the 40 working days are over. The court can make a judgment or order the registered promoter to pay your claim, and any payment made because of this is considered to be made on time according to section 206Y(2). If the court orders the registered promoter to pay you, the payment is treated as if it was made within the time period specified in section 206Y(2). You can use the court's decision to get the payment you are owed.

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Government and voting > Elections

206Y: Periods for claiming and paying registered promoter's election expenses, or

"Claiming and paying for election expenses: deadlines for promoters"

206ZA: Leave to pay claim after time limitation, or

"Asking the court to pay an election expense claim after the deadline has passed"

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

206ZProcedure if claim disputed

If a registered promoter, in the case of a claim for election expenses sent to a registered promoter within the period specified in section 206Y(1), disputes the claim or fails to pay the claim within the period of 40 working days specified in section 206Y(2), then—
the claim is to be treated as a disputed claim; and
the claimant may, if he or she thinks fit, within 20 working days after the expiry of that period of 40 working days, bring an action for the disputed claim in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Any sum paid by the registered promoter in accordance with a judgment or order of the court in any such action is to be treated as paid within the period specified in section 206Y(2).

Compare

2007 No 111 s 83

Notes

Section 206Z: inserted, on 1 January 2011, by section 15 of the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 137).