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of the executive committee (however described) of the association; or

    (b) if the gift was purportedly made to a trust fund or paid into the funds of a foundation:

         (i) the names and addresses of the trustees of the fund or of the foundation; and

         (ii) the title or other description of the trust fund, or the name of the foundation, as the case requires; or

    (c) in any other case—the name and address of the person or organisation.

  "(5) This section does not apply to a gift made before 1 July 1992.".

Certain gifts not to be received

9. Section 306 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (2B)(a) ", other than a registered industrial organisation" after "unincorporated association".

Interpretation

  10. Section 308 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a)     by omitting from paragraph (1)(g) "; or";

  (b)    by omitting paragraph (1)(h).

Returns of electoral expenditure

  11. Section 309 of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a)     by inserting in subsection (4) "registered" before "political party" (wherever occurring);

    (b)    by omitting subsections (5) to (8) and substituting the following subsection:

     "(5) A person is not required to furnish a return under subsection (4) in respect of an election if the total amount of the electoral expenditure incurred in relation to the election by or with the authority of the person does not exceed $200.".

12. Division 5A of Part XX of the Principal Act is repealed and the following Division is substituted:

"Division 5A—Annual returns by registered political parties

Interpretation

  "314AA.(1) In this Division:

'amount' includes the value of a gift or bequest.

"(2) Without limiting the kinds of events that are fund-raising events, a class of events are taken to be fund-raising events for the purposes of this Division if the regulations so provide.

"(3) For the purposes of this Division, a class of events are taken not to be fund-raising events if the regulations so provide.

Annual returns by registered political parties

"314AB. Subject to this Division, the agent of each registered political party and of each State branch of each registered political party must, within 20 weeks after the end of each financial year beginning on or after 1 July 1992, furnish to the Electoral Commission a return, in an approved form, setting out:

    (a)     the total amount received by, or on behalf of, the party during the financial year, together with the details required by section 314AC; and

    (b)    the total amount paid by, or on behalf of, the party during the financial year, together with the details required by section 314AD; and

    (c)     the total outstanding amount, as at the end of the financial year, of all debts incurred by, or on