Election Funding and Disclosures Amendment (Silent Electors) Regulation 2008 (NSW)

2008 No 378

New South Wales

Election Funding and Disclosures

Amendment (Silent Electors)

Regulation 2008

under the

Election Funding and Disclosures Act 1981

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Election Funding and Disclosures Act 1981.

MORRIS IEMMA, M.P.,

Premier

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to exempt the Election Funding Authority of New South Wales from the obligation to publish the residential address of any donor who is a silent elector (that is an elector whose residential address is not shown on the electoral roll) when it publishes disclosures of donations, if it is aware that the donor is a silent elector.

This Regulation is made under section 117 of the Election Funding and Disclosures Act 1981.

Published in Gazette No 106 of 29 August 2008, page 8283	Page 1
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Election Funding and Disclosures Amendment (Silent

Electors) Regulation 2008

under the

Election Funding and Disclosures Act 1981

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Election Funding and Disclosures Amendment
(Silent Electors) Regulation 2008.

2 Amendment of Election Funding and Disclosures Regulation 2004

The Election Funding and Disclosures Regulation 2004 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 28F

Insert after clause 28E:

28F

Exemption from requirements to publish residential address of
donors who are silent electors

(1)	The Authority is exempt from any requirement under section 95 of the Act to publish the residential address of a donor who is a silent elector that is contained in a disclosure of reportable political donations, if the Authority is aware that the donor is a silent elector.
(2)	In this clause, a silent elector means a person whose address is not entered on, or is deleted from, the Electoral Roll under section 104 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 of the Commonwealth.

BY AUTHORITY