Electoral Matters Amendment Act 14 of 2024 (English / Sesotho)

14 of 2024

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 

Commencement

8 May 2024 (Gazette 50628 of  8 May 2024)

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