Simplified outline of this Division
314AKA Simplified outline of this Division
This Division is about compliance and enforcement.
Subdivision B deals with the appointment and powers of authorised officers. Authorised officers may:
require a person to give information or produce documents, or appear and answer questions, relevant to the enforcement of this Part or the Criminal Code to the extent that it relates to this Part; and
enter and search premises, and seize documents or other things, under a warrant; and
make and retain copies of documents produced to the authorised officer; and
retain documents produced to, or seized by, the authorised officer; and
retain other things seized by the authorised officer.
An authorised officer’s decision to require a person to give information or produce documents, or to appear and answer questions, is subject to internal review.
Subdivision C deals with anti‑avoidance. A person commits an offence or is liable to a civil penalty if the person, either alone or with one or more other persons or entities, enters into a scheme, begins to carry out a scheme or carries out a scheme with the sole or dominant purpose of avoiding the application of certain sections of the Act to the person or another person or entity. A person commits an offence or is liable to a civil penalty if the person enters into, begins to carry out or carries out such a scheme in contravention of a notice given by the Electoral Commissioner that requires the person not to do so.
The Electoral Commissioner’s decision to give such a notice to a person is subject to internal review.
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