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Local Electoral Act 2001

Electoral donations and expenses - Electoral donations

103D: Contributors to be identified

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"People who donate money to help someone get elected must say who gave the money."

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When you make a donation to help someone get elected, you must tell them if the donation is from other people. You have to say that the donation is from contributions. If someone gives more than $1,500, you must give their name, address, and how much they gave. You also have to say how much all these contributions add up to, and how much all the other contributions are. If you do not do this, the candidate must give the donation back to you. If the candidate gives the donation back, it is like they never got it, for the purpose of section 112A.

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Part 5Electoral donations and expenses
Electoral donations

103DContributors to be identified

  1. This section applies to a donation (other than an anonymous donation) that is made up of, includes, or is wholly or partly funded from 1 or more contributions.

  2. If this section applies to a donation, the donor must, at the time of making the donation, disclose—

  3. the fact that the donation is funded from contributions; and
    1. the following information about any contribution that, either on its own or when aggregated with other contributions made by the same contributor to the donation, exceeds $1,500 in sum or value:
      1. the name of the contributor; and
        1. the address of the contributor; and
          1. the amount of the contribution or, in the case of aggregated contributions, the total amount of the aggregated contributions; and
          2. the total of all of the amounts disclosed under paragraph (b)(iii) in relation to the donation; and
            1. the total of all of the other contributions made in relation to the donation.

              1. A candidate must give back to the donor the entire amount of the donation, or its entire value, if the candidate knows, or has reasonable grounds to believe, that the donor has failed to comply with subsection (2) in any respect.

              2. For the purpose of section 112A, any amount given back by a candidate under subsection (3) is taken not to have been received by the candidate.

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              Notes
              • Section 103D: inserted, on , by section 30 of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 40).