Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00094:clause:1_9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00094
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 9
Character Range: 4980–6100

9  At the end of section 129A
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 (2) The Electoral Commission must refuse to enter in the Register a logo of a political party (the applicant), set out in an application to register the applicant, if:
 (a) the applicant's logo contains a word that is in the name, or the abbreviation of the name, of a registered political party; and
 (b) the application is not accompanied by the written consent, to the use by the applicant of the word in its logo for the purposes of registration under this Part, of:
 (i) if there is only one registered political party to which paragraph (a) applies—the registered political party's registered officer; or
 (ii) otherwise—the registered officer of the first such political party to be registered.
Note: Subsection (2) has effect subject to subsections 129(5) and (6).
 (3) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(b)(ii), if the registered political parties to which paragraph (2)(a) applies are a State branch, and the federal branch, of a federal party that were registered on the same day, the federal branch is taken to be the first of those political parties to be registered.