Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 280

280 Meaning of capped expenditure period

(1) The
"capped expenditure period" , for an election, starts—

(a) for an ordinary general election—on the first business day after the last Saturday in the preceding March; or

(b) for an extraordinary general election—

(i) if the capped expenditure period for an ordinary general election has started under paragraph (a) —the day that capped expenditure period started; or

(ii) otherwise—the day the writ for the election is issued; or

(c) for a by-election—the day the writ for the election is issued.

(2) The
"capped expenditure period" , for an election, ends at 6p.m. on the later of—

(a) the polling day for the election; or

(b) if the poll at a polling booth for an election is adjourned under section 99B (3) or 100 (1) —the day the adjourned poll is held.

(3) Subsection (2) (b) applies despite section 100 (6) .

(4) In this section—

"preceding March" , in relation to an ordinary general election, means the March that occurs in the same calendar year as the normal polling day for the general election.