New Zealand Legislation: Acts

70A Obligation of political parties to give notice to Electoral Commission

• (1) In every year in which a Parliament is due to expire, the Electoral Commission shall specify, by notice in the Gazette, a date by which any political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 or of money under section 74A, in respect of the election period that will apply in relation to the general election to be held in that year, must notify the Electoral Commission in writing that it considers itself to be so qualified.

  (2) The date specified under subsection (1) may be a date before the beginning of the election period.

  (3) Each political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 or of money under section 74A in respect of an election period shall notify the Electoral Commission in writing that it considers itself to be so qualified.

  Section 70A: substituted, on 1 July 1996, by section 19 of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 53).