AGY-1158 | Election Funding Authority of New South Wales

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The Election Funding Authority of New South Wales was established by the Election Funding Act 1981 on 17 July 1981. (1) The Election Funding Authority consisted of three members with the Electoral Commissioner as Chairman and two other persons nominated respectively by the Premier and Leader of the Opposition. (2) The responsibilities of the Election Funding Authority include - * Administration of the of the public funding of Parliamentary election campaigns * Ensuring the disclosure of political contributions by candidates, groups, parties, and third parties at State and Local Government elections * Ensuring the disclosure of electoral expenditure by candidates, groups, parties, and third parties at State and Local Government elections * Administration of the Political Education Fund which provides money to eligible parties for political education * registration of candidates, groups and parties with the keeping of a Party Register * maintaining a Party Agents Register * maintaining a Register of Official Agents for a general election * maintaining registers for by-elections where there are two or more candidates for election * making the registers publicly available * publishing a copy of, summary, or extracts from each register in the New South Wales Government Gazette two weeks before the polling day for each election The Election Funding Act 1981 Regulations stipulate that accounting records for candidates, groups, parties and official agents must be maintained and kept for six years from the last entry in the relevant book. Videotapes, films or any other transparency used in an advertisement on television or at a cinema must be retained for 12 months after the date of the last presentation of the advertisement. These records must be available for inspection by a member of the Authority or a person authorised by the Authority. (3) FOOTNOTES (1) New South Wales Government Gazette 17 July 1981 page 3801. (2) Election Funding Act (No. 78 1981) Section 6. (3) New South Wales Government Gazette 17 July 1981 pp. 3806-3830.