Electoral Act 1993

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

206ZG: Duty of Electoral Commission

You could also call this:

"The Electoral Commission's job is to report law-breaking to the Police if it's serious."

The Electoral Commission has a job to do when they think someone has broken the law. If they believe someone has committed an offence, they must tell the New Zealand Police what they know. You need to know that the Electoral Commission will only report this to the Police if they think it's serious enough to be of public interest. The Electoral Commission can decide not to report something if they think it's not a big deal.

The Electoral Commission gets this job from a law that you can find on the Electoral Act 1993 and it was updated by the Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Act 2010. This law says what the Electoral Commission must do if they think someone has broken the rules about election expenses, donations, and annual financial statements. The Electoral Commission has to follow this law to make sure everything is fair and honest.

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Government and voting > Elections

206ZF: Obligation to retain records necessary to verify return of registered promoter's election expenses, or

"Keep records to prove your election expenses are correct"

206ZH: Return of registered promoter's election expenses to be publicly available, or

"People can see how much money was spent on elections by registered promoters"

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

206ZGDuty of Electoral Commission

If the Electoral Commission believes that any person has committed an offence specified in this subpart, the Electoral Commission must report the facts on which that belief is based to the New Zealand Police.
Subsection (1) does not apply if the Electoral Commission considers that the offence is so inconsequential that there is no public interest in reporting those facts to the New Zealand Police.

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2007 No 111 s 132

Notes

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