Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 175P

175P .         Gifts received by group in disclosure period, return as to required

        (1)         Subject to subsection (3), the agent of a group in an election shall, within 15 weeks after polling day in the election, lodge a return with the Electoral Commissioner in an approved form setting out —

            (a)         the total amount or value of all gifts; and

            (b)         the number of persons who made gifts; and

            (c)         subject to subsection (4), the relevant details of each gift,

                received by the group during the disclosure period for the election.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), the disclosure period for an election is the period that —

            (a)         commenced when the persons who were included in the group made a claim under section 80(1) in relation to the election; and

            (b)         ended 30 days after polling day in the election.

        (3)         Where all the persons included in a group in an election have been endorsed by the same political party, a gift received by the group shall be taken to have been received by the party.

        (4)         The return does not have to set out the relevant details of a gift if the amount or value of the gift is less than the specified amount.

        (5)         Subsection (4) does not apply in relation to a gift made by a person to the group if the sum of the amount or value of that gift and other gifts that were made by that person to the group and are included in the return equals or exceeds the specified amount.

        [Section 175P inserted: No. 75 of 1992 s. 4.]