ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 281I Expenditure cap exceeded because of aggregation of electoral expenditure

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 281I

281I Expenditure cap exceeded because of aggregation of electoral expenditure

(1) A participant in an election, or a person acting with the participant’s authority, who incurs electoral expenditure does not commit an offence against section 281G in relation to the expenditure if—

(a) the expenditure exceeds the participant’s expenditure cap because it is added to aggregated expenditure; and

(b) the person did not know, and could not reasonably have known, about the aggregated expenditure.

(2) In this section—


"aggregated expenditure" , for an election participant, means electoral expenditure that is taken to have been incurred for the election participant under subdivision 4 even though the expenditure was incurred by another election participant.