Electoral Funding Amendment (By-Election Funding) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Electoral Funding Amendment (By-Election

Funding) Regulation 2018

under the

Electoral Funding Act 2018

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Electoral Funding Act 2018.

GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN, MP

Premier

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to clarify the amount of public funding that a candidate in a by-election held regulation-making power) and clause 1 of Schedule 2.

before the 2019 State general election is entitled to receive.

Electoral Funding Amendment (By-Election Funding) Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Electoral Funding Amendment (By-Election Funding) Regulation

2018

under the

Electoral Funding Act 2018

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Electoral Funding Amendment (By-Election Funding)
Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Electoral Funding Act 2018 No 20

Schedule 2 Savings, transitional and other provisions

Insert at the end of the Schedule:

17      Amount of public funding for certain by-elections

(1)	This clause applies in relation to candidates in a by-election for the Assembly for which the writ was issued during the transitional period who are (under section 68 of the Act) eligible for payments from the Election Campaigns Fund.
(2)	The amount to be distributed from the Election Campaigns Fund to any such candidate is:

(a)	$4 for each first preference vote received in the by-election for the Assembly by any such candidate in that election, or
(b)	the total amount of the actual campaign expenditure of the candidate,

whichever is the lesser.

(3) In this clause, transitional period means the period beginning on the commencement of the Act (being 1 July 2018) and ending on 23 March 2019.