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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 314AJ Prohibition on foreign campaigners incurring electoral expenditure or fundraising for that purpose

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 314AJ

Prohibition on foreign campaigners incurring electoral expenditure or fundraising for that purpose

  (1)   A foreign campaigner contravenes this subsection if:

  (a)   amounts of electoral expenditure incurred by or with the authority of the foreign campaigner in a financial year total $1,000 or more; or

  (b)   amounts fundraised for the purpose of electoral expenditure being incurred by or with the authority of the foreign campaigner in a financial year total $1,000 or more.

Civil penalty:

The higher of the following amounts:

  (a)   200 penalty units;

  (b)   if there is sufficient evidence for the court to determine or estimate the amount of electoral expenditure incurred or fundraised in contravention of this subsection--3 times that amount.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) applies:

  (a)   whether or not the conduct constituting the contravention of that subsection occurs in Australia; and

  (b)   whether or not a result of the conduct constituting the alleged contravention of that subsection occurs in Australia.

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