Local Government Act 2020

The VEC may send to each Council an account of the reasonable expenses incurred by the VEC—

for preparing and providing the voters' roll; and

for conducting an election for the Council, including in advertising and giving notice of the election and electoral process; and

for the administration, enforcement and prosecution of any offence related to compulsory voting under this Act, the City of Melbourne Act 2001 or the regulations.

A Council is responsible for the reasonable expenses of the VEC as specified in an account sent to the Council under subsection (1).

For the purposes of this section, reasonable expenses that may be recovered from a Council do not include any costs recovered under the Infringements Act 2006 and passed on to the VEC under that Act (being an enforcement agency under that Act).