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Division 3—Reporting and accounting of political donations

Disclosing reportable political donations

62.—(1) Subject to this Act, every reportable political donation received and accepted during each reporting period by or on behalf of any politically significant person must be disclosed to a competent authority in accordance with this Division.

(2) Disclosure to a competent authority of reportable political donations received and accepted during a reporting period by or on behalf of a politically significant person must be in a donation report relating to the reporting period that—

(a) is in the form required by the competent authority;
(b) is given to the competent authority within the time delimited by section 63 and in the manner prescribed in Regulations or, subject to those Regulations, as approved by the competent authority;
(c) contains the prescribed details of every reportable political donation received and accepted during the reporting period by or on behalf of the politically significant person, and the prescribed particulars of each donor;
(d) is signed by the person who is required by section 64 to be responsible for the disclosure of reportable political donations received and accepted by or on behalf of the politically significant person; and
(e) is accompanied by a declaration in section 65 made by the person who is required by section 64 to be responsible for the disclosure of reportable political donations received and accepted by or on behalf of the politically significant person.

(3) In this section—

“appointed day” means the date of commencement of this section;