Electoral Funding Act 2018

If the Electoral Commission is satisfied that 2 or more registered parties endorsed the same elected members for the State election at which the members were elected and that the members each claim to be endorsed by those parties—

those parties are taken, for the purposes of this Division, to constitute one registered party instead of 2 or more registered parties in relation to those elected members, and

the amount that would otherwise be payable from the Administration Fund to that one registered party in respect of the members for the election is payable instead to those 2 or more registered parties as shared funding.

An amount payable to 2 or more parties as shared funding is payable to them—

in equal shares, or

in such other shares as the party agents of those parties agree on and as are specified in a direction in writing (a shared funding direction) signed by them and served on the Electoral Commission.

If a registered party would, but for this subsection, be entitled to be paid 2 or more amounts by virtue of subsection (1), the party is entitled to be paid only one of those amounts, being the largest amount.

A shared funding direction remains effective until revoked by the party agents of the parties concerned and notice in writing of the revocation is served on the Electoral Commission.