Long title

‘To provide for, and regulate, public and private funding of political parties, independent candidates and independent representatives, in particular; the establishment and management of Funds to fund represented political parties and independent representatives sufficiently; to prohibit certain donations made directly to political parties, independent candidates and independent representatives; to regulate disclosure of donations accepted; to determine the duties of political parties, independent candidates and independent representatives in respect of funding; to provide for powers and duties of the Commission; to provide for administrative fines; to create offences and penalties; to repeal the Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act, 1997, to provide for transitional matters; and to provide for related matters.

[... Long title amended by Act 2024_014_001_20240507]
 
Table of contents

SECTION	TITLE
	PREAMBLE
	CHAPTER 1. INTERPRETATION
1.	Definitions
	CHAPTER 2. FUNDS
2.	Establishment of Political Representatives Fund [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_004_20240507 - was entitled "Establishment of Represented Political Party Fund"]
3.	Establishment of Multi-Party Democracy Fund
4.	Investment of money in Funds
5.	Management and administration of Funds
6.	Allocation and payment of money to represented political parties and independent representatives [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_007_20240507 - was entitled "Allocation and payment of money to represented political party"]
6A.	Money in Fund may not be attached [... Title inserted by Act 2024_014_008_20240507]
7.	Purposes for which money from Funds may be used
	[ CHAPTER 3. ] DIRECT FUNDING OF POLITICAL PARTIES, INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVES AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_010_20240507 - was entitled "CHAPTER 3. DIRECT FUNDING OF POLITICAL PARTIES"]
8.	Prohibited donations
8A.	Right to refuse donation or allocation [... Title inserted by Act 2024_014_012_20240507]
9.	Disclosure of donations to political parties, independent candidates and independent representatives [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_013_20240507 - was entitled "Disclosure of donations to political party"]
10.	Prohibition on donation to member of political party, independent representative and independent candidate [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_014_20240507 - was entitled "Prohibition on donation to member of political party"]
	[ CHAPTER 4. ] DUTIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES, INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVES AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_014_20240507 - was entitled "DUTIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES"]
11.	Political party, independent representative and independent candidate to furnish information to Commission  [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_016_20240507 - was entitled "Political party to furnish information to Commission"]
12.	Political party to account for income
12A.	Independent representative and independent candidate to account for income [... Title inserted by Act 2024_014_018_20240507] ]
13.	Unspent money at end of financial year
	CHAPTER 5. ENFORCEMENT
14.	Commission’s monitoring and inspection powers
15.	Commission’s power to issue directions
16.	Power to suspend payment of money
17.	Power to recover money irregularly accepted or spent
18.	Administrative fines
19.	Offences and penalties
20.	Review or appeals
	CHAPTER 6. GENERAL PROVISIONS
21.	Administration
22.	Report to Parliament
23.	Funding of represented political parties and independent representatives by [ legislatures ] [ legislature ] [... Title amended by Act 2024_014_026_20240507 - was entitled "Funding of represented political parties by legislatures"]
24.	Regulations
25.	Repeal and transitional provisions
26.	Short title and commencement
Sch. 1.	SCHEDULE 1. MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE FINES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED FOR CONTRAVENING THIS ACT [s18(2)]
Sch. 2.	SCHEDULE 2. REGULATIONS ON POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING, 2017 [sic - year reference in text is 2018]  [s25(3)]

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