49Donation declarations

49 Donation declarations

(1)  A party agent or official agent may lodge with the Commission, in the approved manner, a donation declaration in an approved form.

(2)  The regulations, or the Commission, may make provision for an electronic or internet-based system of lodgment of donation declarations.

(3)  A donation declaration lodged under this section in relation to a relevant disclosure period is to contain a statement to the effect that all disclosures that the party agent, or official agent, lodging the declaration is required to make in relation to the period –

(a) have been made; and

(b) are true and correct.

(4)  If a person, in a relevant disclosure period, qualifies as more than one of the following:

(a) an associated entity;

(b) a third-party campaigner;

(c) a significant political donor –

an official agent who is required to make, in relation to the relevant disclosure period, a disclosure under this Part in relation to the person may make a single donation declaration under this Part in relation to all the disclosures, during the relevant disclosure period, that the official agent is required to make in relation to the person.

(5)  A party agent in relation to a registered party may lodge under this Part, in relation to a relevant disclosure period, a single donation declaration in relation to all the disclosures that the party agent is required under this Part to make, during the relevant disclosure period, in relation to –

(a) the registered party; and

(b) Members or candidates –

but each single donation declaration must separately identify the disclosures relating to the registered party and to each of the Members or candidates.

(6)  Disclosures in a donation declaration lodged under this section are required to be vouched for in the manner, if any, prescribed by the regulations, which may include by way of statutory declaration.