Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 261

261 Disclosure by candidates of gifts

(1) If, during the disclosure period for an election, a candidate in the election receives a gift that has a value equal to or more than the gift threshold amount, the candidate’s agent must give the commission a return about the gift.

Notes—

1 Section 204A does not apply to an associated entity of a candidate in an election for this division.

2 See section 294 for the requirement for a return about a gift received by an associated entity of a candidate to be given to the commission.

(2) The return must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) state the following—

(i) the value of the gift;

(ii) the date the gift was made;

(iii) the relevant particulars of the entity that made the gift;

(iv) if the entity is not the source of the gift—the relevant particulars of the entity that is the source of the gift;

(v) whether or not the gift is a political donation; and

(c) be given to the commission by the day, or the time, not more than 15 weeks after the polling day for the election, prescribed by a regulation.

(3) Also, the agent of a candidate in an election must, within 15 weeks after the polling day for the election, give the commission a return, in the approved form, stating—

(a) if the candidate received gifts during the disclosure period for the election—

(i) the total value of all gifts received by the candidate during the disclosure period; and

(ii) the number of entities who made the gifts; or

(b) otherwise—that no gifts of a kind required to be disclosed were received.

(4) For subsection (1) , 2 or more gifts made, during the disclosure period for an election, by the same entity to a particular candidate are taken to be 1 gift.