Electoral (Amendment) Bill 1998

Public bill · Government · Presented

Tightens transparency rules for political donations, requiring parties and major donors to disclose contributions and preventing officials from accepting donations where the donor will not report them. It also clarifies and broadens how election spending by parties and candidates is counted, reported and attributed, including spending in presidential elections.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electoral Act, 1997, concerning the disclosure of donations for political purposes and the regulation of expenditure at elections by political parties and candidates and to provide for related matter

Last updated 12 April 2018