Electoral Funding Act 2018

The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

The Minister, before a regulation is made under this Act, is to certify to the Governor that the regulation is not unfairly biased against or in favour of any particular parties, elected members, groups, candidates or other persons, bodies or organisations, but nothing in this subsection affects the validity of that or any other regulation.

Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made for or with respect to the following—

requiring the making, keeping and auditing of records of political donations made or received, and electoral expenditure incurred, by parties, elected members, groups, candidates and other persons, and requiring and otherwise providing for the production, examination and copying of those records,

requiring parties, elected members, groups, candidates, associated entities, third-party campaigners, party agents and official agents to obtain valuations from a valuer approved by the Electoral Commission of political donations that are not gifts of money (or enabling the Electoral Commission to obtain any such valuations),

requiring parties and third-party campaigners to make disclosures about the receipt of indirect campaign contributions of the kind referred to in section 47(3),

requiring parties, when issuing an invoice under section 9(9), to average the expenditure among all endorsed candidates who directly or indirectly benefit from the expenditure,

determining whether or not a political donation was solicited by or made for the direct benefit of particular candidates endorsed by a party or elected members of the party for the purposes of section 19(2)(h),

compliance audits by or on behalf of the Electoral Commission in connection with disclosures under Part 3 (Political donations and electoral expenditure),

matters of a savings or transitional nature consequent on elected members, candidates or groups of candidates becoming or ceasing to be members of political parties (such as matters relating to disclosures of political donations and electoral expenditure under Division 2 of Part 3 and the application of management requirements under Division 5 of Part 3),

the exemption of any class or description of persons, organisations or bodies, or of acts, matters or things, from all or any of the provisions of this Act.

The regulations may create offences punishable by a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units.