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Parliament Act 2025

Salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others - Purposes and interpretation - Interpretation

66: Meaning of electioneering

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You hear the term electioneering and wonder what it means. Electioneering is an activity that explicitly seeks or discourages support for a person or party. It can also mean seeking financial support or encouraging people to vote in a certain way. You might see electioneering when someone is trying to get you to vote for them or their party. This can include asking for money to support their campaign. Electioneering can also happen during a referendum, where someone might try to convince you to vote a certain way, as outlined in the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993. When talking about electioneering, a political party refers to any group that participates in elections, no matter what their status is under this Act.

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Part 4Salaries, allowances, expenses, and services for members and others
Purposes and interpretation: Interpretation

66Meaning of electioneering

  1. Electioneering means an activity that explicitly—

  2. seeks or discourages support for the election of a particular person; or
    1. seeks or discourages support for the casting of a party vote for a particular political party; or
      1. encourages a person to become or discourages a person from becoming a member of a particular political party; or
        1. seeks, encourages, or requests subscriptions or other financial support; or
          1. seeks support for casting a vote for one of the answers to the precise question to be put to voters in an indicative referendum initiated under the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993; or
            1. seeks support for casting a vote for one of the responses to a proposal to be put to electors in a government-initiated referendum.

              1. In this section, political party includes all political parties, regardless of whether a political party is a party within the meaning of this Act.

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