Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016:clause:7_302ag
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 7 cl 302AG
Character Range: 320380–323196

302AG  Spending of administrative assistance funding

Registered political parties
 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if a political party that is a registered political party is paid administrative assistance funding under this Division in a calendar year, the following person must ensure that the funding is used only to incur administrative expenditure:
 (a) the agent of that party while that party is a registered political party;
 (b) if that party ceases to be a registered political party after that administrative assistance funding is paid—the person (the former agent) who was the agent of that party immediately before that party so ceased.
Civil penalty: 200 penalty units.
 (2) If:
 (a) paragraph (1)(b) applies in relation to the former agent of a political party; and
 (b) the Electoral Commission notifies the former agent, in writing, that it is satisfied that the total amount of administrative assistance funding that was payable to that political party in that calendar year does not exceed the total amount of administrative expenditure incurred by that party in that year;
then subsection (1) ceases to apply in relation to the former agent and that funding after the former agent receives that notification.
 (3) If the former agent receives a notification under subsection (2), the former agent must ensure that, after receiving that notification, the administrative assistance funding paid under this Division to that political party in that calendar year is not used to incur expenditure of a kind covered by paragraph 287AAA(2)(a), (b), (c) or (d).
Civil penalty: 200 penalty units.

Individuals
 (4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), if an individual is paid administrative assistance funding under this Division in a calendar year, the individual must ensure that the funding is used only to incur administrative expenditure.
Civil penalty: 200 penalty units.
 (5) If:
 (a) that individual is not an independent member; and
 (b) the Electoral Commission notifies that individual, in writing, that it is satisfied that the total amount of administrative assistance funding that was payable to that individual in that calendar year does not exceed the total amount of administrative expenditure incurred by that individual in that year;
then subsection (4) ceases to apply in relation to that individual and that funding after that individual receives that notification.
 (6) If that individual receives a notification under subsection (5), that individual must ensure that, after receiving that notification, the administrative assistance funding paid under this Division to that individual in that calendar year is not used to incur expenditure of a kind covered by paragraph 287AAA(2)(a), (b), (c) or (d).
Civil penalty: 200 penalty units.

Subdivision D—Recovery of amounts