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The Electoral Matters Amendment Act 14 of 2024 intends:
- to amend the Political Party Funding Act, 2018, so as
- to provide for the regulation of the private and public funding of independent candidates and independent representatives and matters incidental thereto;
- to amend the title, long title and preamble;
- to insert and substitute definitions;
- to amend the name of the Represented Political Party Fund;
- to preclude the Electoral Commission from accepting donations to the Multi-Party Democracy Fund which it has reason to believe is the proceeds of crime;
- to empower the Commission to invest money in the Funds in any bank registered in terms of the Banks Act, 1990;
- to proscribe the attachment of money in the Funds by certain persons;
- to provide for the right of political parties, independent candidates and independent representatives to refuse donations;
- to provide for prohibition on donations to a member of a political party, independent representative or independent candidate other than for political purposes;
- to amend the provisions relating to the accounting obligations of represented and unrepresented political parties;
- to provide for independent representatives and independent candidates to account for income;
- to provide for offences by a member of a political party, independent representative or independent candidate of accepting a donation to circumvent the provision of Chapter 3 or appropriating the donation for themselves;
- to amend the powers of the President to make regulations on certain matters;
- to amend Schedule 2 in respect of the formula for the allocation of money in the Funds on a proportional and equitable basis, in respect of the upper limit of donations and the disclosure limit for donations; and
- to amend
- the Electoral Act, 1998,
- the Electoral Commission Act, 1996,
- the Electronic Communications Act, 2005, and
- the Financial Management of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Act, 2009, so as
- to make consequential amendments resulting from the introduction of independent candidates to contest elections of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures.
Commencement
8 May 2024 (Gazette 50628 of 8 May 2024)
