2019
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering the Donation Disclosure Threshold) Bill 2019
No. , 2019
(Ms Sharkie)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering the Donation Disclosure Threshold) Act 2019.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | The first 1 July to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
1 Subsection 287(1) (definition of disclosure threshold)
Repeal the definition (including the note), substitute:
disclosure threshold means $1,000.
2 Section 321A
Repeal the section.