Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:clause:3_287:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 287 (pt 4/6)
Character Range: 622451–624955

a branch or division of the party that is organized on the basis of a particular State or Territory.
State or Territory electoral law means a law (including a part of a law) of a State or Territory that deals with electoral matters (within the ordinary meaning of the expression).
State or Territory electoral purpose means a purpose relating to a State, Territory or local government election (and, to avoid doubt, does not include the purpose of incurring electoral expenditure or creating or communicating electoral matter).
third party: a person or entity (except a political entity or a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate) is a third party during a financial year if:
 (a) the amount of electoral expenditure incurred by or with the authority of the person or entity during the financial year is more than the disclosure threshold; and
 (b) the person or entity is not required to be, and is not, registered as a significant third party under section 287F for the year.
Note: See also subsection (8) and section 287C (entities that have branches or are not incorporated).
Transparency Register means the Register of that name established and maintained under section 287N.
 (2) Where, under this Part, a claim is to be lodged, a notice is to be given or a return is to be furnished to the Electoral Commission, the claim, notice or return shall be taken to be so lodged, given or furnished if it is lodged at the principal office of the Electoral Commission in Canberra.
 (3) A reference in this Part to things done by or with the authority of a political party, a State branch of a political party or a division of a State branch of a political party shall, if the party, branch or division is not a body corporate, be read as a reference to things done by or with the authority of members or officers of the party, branch or division on behalf of the party, branch or division.
 (4) A reference in this Part to a political party, other than a reference to the endorsement of a candidate or group in an election, shall be read as not including a reference to a part of the political party.
 (4A) In relation to a political party that does not have State branches or that only carries on activities in one State or Territory:
 (a) a reference in another Division of this Part (other than Division 2) to a State branch of a political party is a reference to the party; and
 (b) a reference to the agent of a State branch of a political party is:
 (i) a reference to the agent of the