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Electoral
Matters Amendment Act, No. 14 of 2024
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in _, except iro notice of assent date in English, and except iro title/text/engrossments in the following sections: Long title (SSotho); s31 to s42(Afrik/Afrik/Afrik), s43 to s45 (Zulu/Zulu/Zulu). s46 (SSotho/SSotho/SSotho)
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in _, except iro notice of assent date in English, and except iro title/text/engrossments in the following sections: Long title (SSotho); s31 to s42(Afrik/Afrik/Afrik), s43 to s45 (Zulu/Zulu/Zulu). s46 (SSotho/SSotho/SSotho)
Long title
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, dependent 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 fo 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.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| 1. | Substitution of long title of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 2. | Amendment of Preamble of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 3. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 4. | Amendment of section 2 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 5. | Amendment of section 3 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 6. | Substitution of section 4 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 7. | Substitution of section 6 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 8. | Insertion of section 6A in Act 6 of 2018 |
| 9. | Amendment of section 7 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 10. | Amendment of heading of Chapter 3 to Act 6 of 2018 |
| 11. | Amendment of section 8 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 12. | Insertion of section 8A in Act 6 of 2018 |
| 13. | Amendment of section 9 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 14. | Amendment of section 10 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 15. | Substitution of heading of Chapter 4 to Act 6 of 2018 |
| 16. | Substitution of section 11 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 17. | Amendment of section 12 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 18. | Insertion of section 12A in Act 6 of 2018 |
| 19. | Amendment of section 13 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 20. | Amendment of section 14 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 21. | Amendment of section 15 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 22. | Amendment of section 16 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 23. | Amendment of section 17 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 24. | Amendment of section 19 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 25. | Amendment of section 22 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 26. | Substitution of section 23 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 27. | Amendment of section 24 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 28. | Substitution of short title of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 29. | Amendment of Schedule 2 of Act 6 of 2018 |
| 30. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 73 of 1998... |
| 31. | Amendment of section 24A of Act 73 of 1998... |
| 32. | Amendment of section 33 of Act 73 of 1998... |
| 33. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 51 of 1996, as amended by section 1 of
Act 117 of 1998, section 1 of Act 4 of 2021 and section 6 of Act 22 of
2014 [NOTE: Act 1996_051_001 was not amended by Act 1998_117_001]** |
| 34. | Amendment of section 5 of Act 51 of 1996... |
| 35. | Amendment of section 6 of Act 51 of 1996, as amended by section 1 of Act 1 of 2019 [NOTE: Act 1996_051_006 was not amended by Act 1998_117_001]** |
| 36. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 36 of 2005... |
| 37. | Substitution of section 52 of Act 36 of 2005 |
| 38. | Substitution of section 56 of Act 36 of 2005 |
| 39. | Substitution of section 57 of Act 36 of 2005 |
| 40. | Amendment of section 58 of Act 36 of 2005 |
| 41. | Substitution of section 59 of Act 36 of 2005 |
| 42. | Amendment of Arrangement of Sections |
| 43. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 10 of 2009... |
| 44. | Amendment of section 34 of Act 10 of 2009... |
| 45. | Amendment of section 65 of Act 10 of 2009 |
| 46. | Short title and commencement |
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