(1) Despite anything
in sections 62E to 62H, on the commencement of section 63 of the
Electoral Amendment Act 2000 any political party that is at that time a
parliamentary party becomes a registered political party by operation of this
subsection.
(2) Subsection (1)
only applies to a political party if the party was in existence on 14 June
2000 and at least one member of the party was a member of the Assembly or the
Council on that day.
(3) The registration
of a political party under subsection (1) ceases to have effect at the end of
the period of 3 months from the day on which section 63 of the
Electoral Amendment Act 2000 commences unless, within that period, the
secretary of the political party provides the Electoral Commissioner with the
information and documents referred to in section 62E(4)(a), (b), (c), (e) and
(f).
[Section 62I inserted: No. 36 of 2000 s. 63;
amended: No. 64 of 2006 s. 53.]