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this section and ending on the next 30 June.

"(4) In this section:

'Commonwealth Department' means:

    (a) a Department of State of the Commonwealth; or

    (b) a Department of the Parliament; or

    (c) a branch or part of the Australian Public Service in relation to the staff of which a person has, under an Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, a Secretary under the Public Service Act 1922;

'principal officer' means:

    (a) in relation to a Department—the person holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Secretary of the Department; and

    (b) in relation to a branch or part of the Australian Public Service referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of Commonwealth Department, the person who has, under an Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, a Secretary under the Public Service Act 1922.".

Nil returns

21. Section 313 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2).

22. After Division 5 of Part XX of the Principal Act the following Division is inserted:

"Division 5a—Annual returns of income and expenditure

Annual returns of income and expenditure

"314aa. (1) Subject to this section, the agent of each registered political party and of each State branch of each registered political party must, within 8 weeks after the end of each financial year, furnish to the Electoral Commission a return, in an approved form, setting out particulars of:

    (a) all amounts received by, or on behalf of, the party during the financial year and the persons or organisations from whom those amounts were received; and

    (b) all amounts paid by, or on behalf of, the party during the financial year and the persons or organisations to whom those amounts were paid; and

    (c) the outstanding amounts, as at the end of the financial year, of all debts incurred by or on behalf of the party and the persons or organisations to whom those outstanding amounts are owed.

"(2) Subject to the regulations, subsection (1) does not require particulars of a person or organisation referred to in paragraph (1) (a) to be included in a return if the total of all amounts referred to in that paragraph received from the person or organisation is less than $1,500.

"(3) Subject to the regulations, subsection (1) does not require particulars of a person or organisation referred to in paragraph (1) (b) to be included in a return if the total of all amounts referred to in that paragraph paid to the person or organisation is less than $1,500.

"(4) Subject to the regulations, subsection (1) does not require particulars of a person or organisation referred to in paragraph (1) (c) to be included in a return if the total of