Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016:clause:3_302ba:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 302BA (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 129980–131963

is that a registered political party is not related to another registered political party for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), (2)(c) or (3)(c).
Example: The Quokka Party (ACT) is a registered political party, as is the Quokka Party (NSW).
 The amounts of gifts received by the Quokka Party (ACT) will not be aggregated with the amounts of gifts received by the Quokka Party (NSW).
 The amounts of gifts received by candidates endorsed by the Quokka Party (ACT) are aggregated only with the amounts of gifts received by the Quokka Party (ACT), and not with the amounts of gifts received by candidates endorsed by the Quokka Party (NSW).
Note 3: See subsections 287(6) and (8) to (8D) for the treatment of related bodies corporate, and significant third parties, third parties, associated entities and their branches, for the purposes of this Part.
 (5) If (apart from this subsection), a person who is a member of the House of Representatives, a Senator or a candidate would be related to more than one registered political party for the purposes of paragraphs (1)(c), (2)(c) and (3)(c), then, despite subsection (4), the person is taken to be related only to:
 (a) if the person is a candidate—the registered political party that endorses the person; or
 (b) if the person is a member of the House of Representatives or a Senator who is not a candidate:
 (i) the registered political party that endorsed the person as a candidate in the election that most recently resulted in the person becoming a member of the House of Representatives or a Senator; or
 (ii) if the person is a Senator who became a Senator other than as a result of an election—the registered political party that endorsed the person's predecessor as a candidate for election to the Senate; or
 (c) in any case, if the person has given the Electoral Commission a written notice in the approved form specifying another of the registered political parties—the registered political party most recently so specified.