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Electoral Disclosure and Funding Act 2023
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(1) In this section –
relevant gift means –
(a) [Section 47 Subsection (1) amended by No. 1 of 2025, s. 10, Applied:01 Jul 2025] a gift of $1 000 or more; and
(b) gifts that, if they had been political donations made to or for the benefit of a third-party campaigner, would have been a reportable political donation by operation of the provisions of section 13 (other than section 13(1) ).
(2) If –
(a) a significant political donor makes one or more reportable political donations during a relevant disclosure period; and
(b) the significant political donor receives, during the relevant disclosure period, a reportable gift –
the significant political donor is required to include, in a donation disclosure made, in accordance with section 46(1) , in relation to one of those donations made by the significant political donor during the relevant disclosure period, a disclosure of the relevant information in relation to the reportable gift.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) , a significant political donor receives, during a relevant disclosure period, a reportable gift, if, during the relevant disclosure period –
(a) the significant political donor receives a relevant gift made to the donor by a person (the gift-maker); and
(b) the significant political donor knew, or ought to have known, that all or part of the gift was intended by the gift-maker to be used by the significant political donor to make a reportable political donation during the relevant disclosure period.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) , the relevant information in relation to a reportable gift is the following information:
(a) the date on which the gift was made;
(b) the name of the gift-maker;
(c) the residential address of the gift-maker (in the case of a natural person or an unincorporated body of persons) or the address of the registered or other official office of the gift-maker (in the case of a person who is an incorporated body of persons);
(d) the amount of the gift;
(e) in the case of a gift-maker that is not a natural person – the relevant business number, if any, of the gift-maker;
(f) in relation to the disclosure of a gift to which paragraph (b) of the definition of relevant gift in subsection (1) relates – details that separately identify that gift and the earlier gifts with which it is aggregated.