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Local Electoral Act 2001

Electoral donations and expenses - Electoral expenses

112: Apportionment of electoral expenses

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"Sharing election costs fairly"

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You need to split costs fairly if you do things before and during the election period. This means you attribute a fair share of costs to the election period. These costs are called electoral expenses. If you do election activities for two or more candidates, you must split the costs fairly between them. You can find what electoral activity means in section 104. This helps you work out what costs to include. You must apportion costs equitably for each candidate when you campaign for more than one candidate.

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Part 5Electoral donations and expenses
Electoral expenses

112Apportionment of electoral expenses

  1. If any activity of the kind described in paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of the term electoral activity (as set out in section 104) is, in relation to a candidate at an election, carried on both before and within the applicable period before the close of polling day,—

  2. the expenses incurred in respect of the activity (being expenses incurred by or on behalf of the candidate) must be properly apportioned so that a fair proportion of those expenses is attributed to the carrying on of the activity in the applicable period before the close of polling day; and
    1. the fair proportion of those expenses are electoral expenses.

      1. If any election activity relates exclusively to campaigns for the election of 2 or more candidates, any electoral expenses in respect of that electoral activity must be apportioned equitably in relation to each of those candidates.

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      • Section 112(2): amended, on , by section 36 of the Local Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 85).