Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018A00147:clause:1_61
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018A00147
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 61
Character Range: 99794–100976

61  Subsections 305B(1) and (2)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
 (1) If, in a financial year, a person or entity makes gifts totalling more than the disclosure threshold to:
 (a) the same registered political party; or
 (b) the same State branch of a registered political party; or
 (c) the same political campaigner;
the person or entity must, in accordance with this section, provide a return to the Electoral Commission within 20 weeks after the end of the financial year, covering all the gifts that the person or entity made to that political party, branch or campaigner during the financial year.
Civil penalty:
The higher of the following:
 (a) 60 penalty units;
 (b) if there is sufficient evidence for the court to determine the amount or value, or an estimate of the amount or value, of gifts not disclosed—3 times that amount or value.
 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person or entity who makes a gift to any other person or entity with the intention of benefiting a particular registered political party, State branch of a registered political party, or political campaigner, is taken to have made that gift directly to that party, branch or campaigner.