Electoral Act 1992

This section applies if a participant in an election (the first election participant) incurs electoral expenditure that benefits another election participant (the recipient).

For this division, if the first election participant gifts the electoral expenditure to the recipient, the electoral expenditure is incurred by the first election participant.

However, for this division, the recipient is taken to have incurred the electoral expenditure if—

any of the following apply—

the expenditure is incurred with the recipient’s authority or consent;

the recipient accepts election material that results from the expenditure;

another circumstance prescribed by regulation happens in relation to the expenditure being incurred; and

the first election participant invoices the recipient for payment for the amount of the expenditure.

Section 281 applies for determining when the election expenditure is incurred.