New Zealand Legislation: Acts

103 Transitional provision relating to pending applications for registration of political parties and party logos

• (1) If, on or after the commencement of section 13 or, as the case requires, section 14, an application made before that commencement under section 63 or section 63A of the principal Act is to be determined by the Electoral Commission, the Electoral Commission must deal with that application as if section 13 or, as the case requires, section 14 had not been passed.

  (2) If the Electoral Commission registers, after the commencement of section 13, a political party on the basis of an application received before the commencement of that section, the secretary of that party must supply to the Electoral Commission, within 1 month after the date of that registration, the name and address of the person who is the party's auditor, and that person's signed consent to being named as the party's auditor.