No public campaign funding for endorsed candidates of eligible parties
70 No public campaign funding for endorsed candidates of eligible parties
(cf section 103E EFED Act)
This section applies in relation to candidates who are duly nominated for a State general election and who are endorsed by a party that is eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund under section 66.
Payments from the Election Campaigns Fund are not to be made to any such candidate in respect of such a State general election.
Despite subsection (2), a party may direct in writing that a part of the amount that is to be distributed to the party under section 67 be paid to any such candidate.
This section applies despite section 68.
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