Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:clause:3_305a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 305A (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 730235–732473

gifts are made to the same person or entity during the period specified by legislative instrument under paragraph (1A)(a).
 (3) The return must:
 (a) be provided to the Electoral Commission before the end of 15 weeks after the polling day for the election or by‑election; and
 (b) be in the approved form.
 (4) For the purposes of this section, the required details of a gift are its amount or value, the date on which it was made and:
 (a) if the gift was made to an unincorporated association, other than a registered industrial organisation:
 (i) the name of the association; and
 (ii) the names and addresses of the members 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 entity.
 (5) Subsection 93(2) of the Regulatory Powers Act does not apply in relation to a contravention of subsection (2) of this section.
 (6) Despite subsection 287(9), for the purposes of this section, a person who is a candidate in an election or by‑election:
 (a) is taken to begin to be a candidate in the election or by‑election on the earlier of the following days:
 (i) the day that is 6 months before the day the person announced that the person would be a candidate in the election or by‑election;
 (ii) the day that is 6 months before the day the person nominated as a candidate in the election or by‑election; and
 (b) is taken to cease to be a candidate in the election or by‑election at the end of 30 days after the polling day in the election or by‑election.
 (7) Despite subsection 287(9), for the purposes of this section, a group:
 (a) is taken to begin to be a group in an election on the day that is 6 months before the day the members of the group make a request under section 168 for their names to be grouped in the ballot papers for the election; and
 (b) is taken to cease to be a group in the election at the end of 30 days after the polling day in the election.