(1) Subject to
subsection (2), the agent of a group in an election shall, before the
expiration of 15 weeks after the polling day in the election, lodge a return
with the Electoral Commissioner in an approved form setting out details of all
electoral expenditure in relation to the election incurred by or with the
authority of persons included in the group.
(2) Where electoral
expenditure in relation to an election is incurred by or with the authority of
persons included in a group and all the persons included in the group have
been endorsed by the same political party, the electoral expenditure shall be
taken to have been incurred by or with the authority of the party.
[Section 175SC inserted: No. 75 of 1992 s. 4 (as
amended: No. 43 of 1996 s. 26).]