71Assembly election campaign returns

71 Assembly election campaign returns

(1)  A party agent, or official agent, is to lodge with the Commission, in the approved manner, an Assembly election campaign return in the approved form.

(2)  Without limiting subsection (1) , the regulations or the Commission may make provision for an electronic or internet-based system of lodgment of an Assembly election campaign return.

(3)  An Assembly election campaign return, in relation to an election campaign period, that is lodged by a party agent or official agent is to include –

(a) disclosures of all electoral expenditure that the party agent, or official agent, is required under Part 6 to disclose in relation to the election campaign period; and

(b) disclosures, in relation to each reportable political donation, that the party agent, or official agent, is required under Part 5 to disclose in relation to the election campaign period; and

(c) disclosure of the total amount of political donations, during the election campaign period, that are not reportable political donations but that are political donations (including small contributions) that the party agent, or official agent, would be required under Part 5 to disclose if the political donations were reportable political donations; and

(d) in the case of an Assembly election campaign return that is –

(i) lodged, in relation to a registered party, by a party agent in relation to the registered party; or

(ii) lodged, in relation to an associated entity, by an official agent in relation to the associated entity –

disclosure of the relevant debt information, in respect of the election campaign period, in relation to the registered party, or associated entity, respectively; and

(e) if there are no political donations, or electoral expenditure, that the party agent, or official agent, is required under Part 5 or Part 6 to disclose – a disclosure to that effect; and

(f) a disclosure of the amount of each contribution, during the election campaign period –