Part IV Control of donations to registered parties and their members etc.
C3C4Chapter III Reporting of donations to registered parties
Pt. 4 Chs. 1-3 disapplied (temp. from 16.2.2005) by The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (Disapplication of Part IV for Northern Ireland Parties, etc) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/299), arts. 1(2), 2
Reports to be made by registered parties
C1I162 Quarterly donation reports.
1
The treasurer of a registered party shall, in the case of each year, prepare a report under this subsection in respect of each of the following periods—
C2a
January to March;
b
April to June;
c
July to September;
d
October to December.
2
In this section—
“donation report” means a report prepared under subsection (1);
“reporting period”, in relation to such a report, means the period mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of that subsection to which the report relates.
3
The donation reports for any year shall, in the case of each permissible donor from whom any donation is accepted by the party during that year, comply with the following provisions of this section so far as they require any such donation to be recorded in a donation report; and in those provisions any such donation is referred to, in relation to the donor and that year, as a “relevant donation”.
F13A
“Relevant benefit”, in relation to any person and any year, means—
a
a relevant donation accepted by the party from that person as a donor, or
b
a relevant transaction within the meaning of section 71M(3) entered into by the party and that person as a participant,
and a relevant benefit accrues when it is accepted (if it is a donation) or entered into (if it is a transaction).
4
Where no previous relevant F2benefit or benefits has or have been required to be recorded under this subsection F3or section 71M(4), a relevant donation must be recorded—
a
if it is a donation of more than F4£7,500 , or
5
A donation to which subsection (4) applies must—
a
(if within paragraph (a) of that subsection) be recorded in the donation report for the reporting period in which it is accepted, or
b
(if within paragraph (b) of that subsection) be recorded (F6together with any other relevant donation or donations included in the aggregate amount mentioned in that paragraph) in the donation report for the reporting period in which the F7benefit which causes that aggregate amount to be more than F4£7,500F8accrues.
6
Where any previous relevant F9benefit or benefits has or have been required to be recorded under subsection (4) F10or section 71M(4), a relevant donation must be recorded at the point when there has or have been accepted—
b
F13any relevant donation falling within subsection (6A).
F146A
A relevant donation falls within this subsection—
a
if it is a donation of more than F15£1,500 , or
b
if, when it is added to any other relevant benefit or benefits accruing since the time mentioned in subsection (6)(a) or (b), the aggregate amount of the benefits is more than F15£1,500.
7
A donation to which subsection (6) applies on any occasion must—
a
if it is the only F16benefit required to be recorded on that occasion, be recorded in the donation report for the reporting period in which it is accepted, or
8
For the purposes of subsections (4) to (7) as they apply in relation to any year—
a
each payment to which section 55(2) applies and which is accepted by the party during that year shall be treated as a relevant donation in relation to that year, and
b
each payment to which section 55(3) applies and which is received from a particular donor and accepted by the party during that year shall be treated as a relevant donation in relation to the donor and that year;
and the donation reports for the year shall accordingly comply with subsections (4) to (7) so far as they operate, by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) above, to require any relevant donation falling within that paragraph to be recorded in a donation report.
9
A donation report must also record every donation falling within section 54(1)(a) or (b) and dealt with during the reporting period in accordance with section 56(2).
10
If during any reporting period—
a
no donations have been accepted by the party which, by virtue of the preceding provisions of this section, are required to be recorded in the donation report for that period, and
b
no donations have been dealt with as mentioned in subsection (9),
the report shall contain a statement to that effect.
11
Where a registered party is a party with accounting units, subsections (3) to (10) shall apply separately in relation to the central organisation of the party and each of its accounting units—
a
as if any reference to the party were a reference to the central organisation or (as the case may be) to such an accounting unit; but
12
However, for the purposes of subsections (3) to (7) in their application in relation to the central organisation and any year by virtue of subsection (11), any donation—
a
which is accepted from a permissible donor by any of the accounting units during that year, but
b
which is not required to be recorded under subsection (4) or (6) (as they apply by virtue of subsection (11)) as a donation accepted by the accounting unit,
shall be treated as a donation accepted from the donor during that year by the central organisation.
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Schedule 6 has effect with respect to the information to be given in donation reports.
Pt. IV Chapters I-III excluded (temp.from 16.2.2001) by S.I. 2001/446, art. 2