New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Minister of Justice shall notify the Electoral Commission, in respect of each election period, of the amount of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of enabling political parties to meet all or part of the costs of broadcasting election programmes.
(2) Where a general election takes place after the year 1990, an amount of money equal to the amount of public money allocated under section 74A or section 77A in respect of the broadcasting of election programmes at the immediately preceding general election shall, unless an Act of Parliament expressly provides otherwise, be deemed to have been appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of enabling political parties to meet all or part of the costs of broadcasting election programmes at the first-mentioned general election.
(3) Where an amount of money is deemed by subsection (2) to have been appropriated by Parliament for the purpose specified in that subsection, that amount shall be payable out of public money for that purpose without further appropriation than this subsection.
Section 74: substituted, on 1 July 1996, by section 19 of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 53).
