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193 Donations to candidates
(1) This section applies to a person (other than a registered party,
candidate or associated entity) who, during the financial year:
(a) makes gifts totalling $1 500 or more to the same candidate in
an election; or
(b) makes gifts totalling $1 000 or more to an entity declared by
the Commission, by Gazette notice, to be an entity to which
this paragraph applies.
(2) Subsection (1) applies to a person even if at the time the person
made the gift the person was outside the Territory.
(3) Within 60 days after the end of the financial year, the person must
give the Commission a return in the approved form.
(4) The return must state for the person:
(a) the total amount of the gifts made by that person to each
candidate or entity; and
(b) the defined details for those gifts.