Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012

  • revoked
  • Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012: revoked, on 1 July 2013, by clause 7 of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2013 (SR 2013/136).

Reprint
as at 1 July 2013

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012

(SR 2012/86)

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 14th day of May 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

  • Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012: revoked, on 1 July 2013, by clause 7 of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2013 (SR 2013/136).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

Pursuant to section 266A of the Electoral Act 1993, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, makes the following order.

Order

1 Title

  • This order is the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012.

2 Commencement

  • This order comes into force on 1 July 2012.

Amendments to Electoral Act 1993

3 Section 204B amended (Persons who may promote election advertisements)
4 Section 205C amended (Maximum amount of candidate's total election expenses)

  • (1) In the Electoral Act 1993, section 205C(1)(a), replace “$25,000” with “$25,400”.

    (2) In the Electoral Act 1993, section 205C(1)(b), replace “$50,000” with “$50,800”.

5 Section 206C amended (Maximum amount of party's total election expenses)

  • (1) In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(1)(a), replace “$1,065,000” with “$1,082,000”.

    (2) In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(1)(b), replace “$25,000” with “$25,400”.

    (3) In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(2), replace “$25,000” with “$25,400”.

6 Section 206V amended (Maximum amount of registered promoter's total election expenses)

  • In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206V(1), replace “$300,000” with “$305,000”.

Revocation

7 Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2011 revoked

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 1 July 2012, adjusts the expenditure limits in the Electoral Act 1993 (the Act) as follows:

  • the amount of advertising expenses that may be incurred by an unregistered promoter in respect of any regulated period increases from $12,000 to $12,200 (section 204B(1)(d) of the Act):

  • the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a candidate in respect of any regulated period—

  • the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a party in respect of any regulated period, if the party is listed in the party vote part of the ballot paper issued for a general election,—

    • increases from $1,065,000 to $1,082,000 (section 206C(1)(a) of the Act); and

    • increases from $25,000 to $25,400 for each electoral district contested by a candidate for the party (section 206C(1)(b) of the Act):

  • the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a party in respect of any regulated period, if the party is not listed in the party vote part of the ballot paper issued for a general election, increases from $25,000 to $25,400 for each electoral district contested by a candidate for the party (section 206C(2) of the Act):

  • the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a registered promoter in respect of any regulated period, increases from $300,000 to $305,000 (section 206V(1) of the Act).

These adjustments reflect the movement between the Consumers Price Index All Groups (the CPI) for the quarter ending 31 March 2011 and the CPI for the quarter ending 31 March 2012 (1.57%).

In accordance with section 266A(4) of the Act, rounding to the next whole hundred dollars has been applied to the adjusted amounts as follows:

In accordance with section 266A(5) of the Act, rounding to the next whole thousand dollars has been applied to the adjusted amounts as follows:

In accordance with section 266A(6) of the Act, the adjusted amount in section 206C(1)(a) is based on $1,064,508, being the amount before it was rounded up for the purposes of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2011.

This order also revokes the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2011, which is superseded.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 17 May 2012.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2012. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the order as at 1 July 2013, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

  • Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2013 (SR 2013/136): clause 7