Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018

  • revoked
  • Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018: revoked, on 1 July 2019, by clause 7 of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2019 (LI 2019/114).

Reprint as at 1 July 2019

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Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018

(LI 2018/77)

Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018: revoked, on 1 July 2019, by clause 7 of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2019 (LI 2019/114).

Patsy Reddy, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 21st day of May 2018

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

This order is made under section 266A of the Electoral Act 1993—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice.

Order

1 Title

This order is the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 1 July 2018.

Amendments to Electoral Act 1993

3 Section 204B amended (Persons who may promote election advertisements)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 204B(1)(d), replace “$12,900” with “$13,000”.

4 Section 205C amended (Maximum amount of candidate’s total election expenses)

(1)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 205C(1)(a), replace “$26,800” with “$27,100”.

(2)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 205C(1)(b), replace “$53,500” with “$54,100”.

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

(1)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(1)(a), replace “$1,139,000” with “$1,152,000”.

(2)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(1)(b), replace “$26,800” with “$27,100”.

(3)

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206C(2), replace “$26,800” with “$27,100”.

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

In the Electoral Act 1993, section 206V(1), replace “$321,000” with “$325,000”.

Revocation

7 Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2017 revoked

The Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2017 (LI 2017/93) is revoked.

Michael Webster,
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 2018, 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 relation to election advertisements published during any regulated period increases from $12,900 to $13,000 (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 $26,800 to $27,100 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 $26,800 to $27,100 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 $321,000 to $325,000 (section 206V(1) of the Act).

These adjustments reflect the movement between the New Zealand Consumers Price Index (All Groups) (the CPI) for the quarter ending 31 March 2017 and the CPI for the quarter ending 31 March 2018 (1.1%).

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 adjustments in this order are based on adjusted amounts before they were rounded up for the purposes of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2017. Those amounts (before rounding up) are as follows:

This order also revokes the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2017, which is superseded.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 24 May 2018.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2018 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2019 (LI 2019/114): clause 7