Electoral Funding Act 2018
67Amount of public funding for eligible parties
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67 Amount of public funding for eligible parties
67 Amount of public funding for eligible parties
(cf sections 58 and 103C EFED Act)
(1) The amount to be distributed from the Election Campaigns Fund to a party eligible for payments from the Fund in respect of a State election is (subject to subsection (2))—
(a) $5.30 for each first preference vote received by an endorsed candidate of the party in the Assembly general election and $3.98 for each first preference vote received by an endorsed candidate of the party in the periodic Council election, or
(b) the total amount of the actual campaign expenditure of the party and of those endorsed candidates of the party,
whichever is the lesser.
(2) If a party is under section 66 eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund because it meets the eligibility criteria in the periodic Council election but not the Assembly general election—
(a) in the case of a party that had 10–24 endorsed candidates in the Assembly general election—the amount under subsection (1)(a) is to include $3.98 for each first preference vote in relation to the Assembly general election, in addition to $3.98 for each first preference vote in relation to the periodic Council election, or
(a1) in the case of a party that had 25 or more endorsed candidates in the Assembly general election—the amount under subsection (1)(a) is to include $5.30 for each first preference vote in relation to the Assembly general election, in addition to $3.98 for each first preference vote in relation to the periodic Council election, or
(b) in any other case—the amount under subsection (1)(a) is to be calculated at the rate of $5.97 (instead of $3.98) for each first preference vote in relation to the periodic Council election (and by excluding any votes received in the Assembly general election).
(3) Each of the amounts referred to in subsections (1) and (2) is an adjustable amount that is to be adjusted for inflation as provided by Schedule 1.
s 67: Am 2026 No 6, Sch 2[22]–[25].