Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016:clause:1_17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00016
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 17
Character Range: 22638–24308

17  Subsection 287(9)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:

When a person is a candidate
 (9) For the purposes of this Part, a person:
 (a) begins to be a candidate in an election on the earliest of the following days:
 (i) the day the person announced that the person would be a candidate in the election;
 (ii) the day the person nominated as a candidate in the election;
 (iii) the day the person receives a gift for a federal purpose in relation to the person's campaign as a candidate that exceeds the disclosure threshold;
 (iv) the day that the total amount or value of all gifts for a federal purpose received by the person in relation to the person's campaign as a candidate, from the same person or entity, exceeds the disclosure threshold;
 (v) the day the person incurs electoral expenditure for the purposes of the person's campaign as a candidate that exceeds the disclosure threshold; and
 (b) ceases to be a candidate in an election at the end of 7 days after the polling day in the election.
Note 1: A person may, for example, begin to be a candidate when the person receives a gift as described in subparagraph (a)(iii) of this subsection, regardless of whether the person has announced the person would be a candidate, or the person nominated as a candidate, in an election.
Note 2: Candidates have certain obligations under this Part in relation to, for example, the expedited disclosure of gifts, the keeping of a federal account and the submission of annual returns (see Division 5). Gifts to candidates may be subject to a gift cap (see Division 3A), and expenditure by candidates may be subject to an electoral expenditure cap (see Division 3AB).