December 2003 - Review of Electoral Acts

Standards in Public Office Commission Review of the Electoral Acts, 1997 to 2002

Standards in Public Office Commission,
18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
Telephone (01) 6395666 Fax (01) 6395684
email: sipo@ombudsman.gov.ie
Website: http://www.sipo.ie

December 2003

Contents

  December 2003 - Review of Electoral Acts (pdf, 169 kb)

Section 1 Introduction

Section 2 General Commentary

Section 3 Overview of Main Provisions

Political Donations

Political Donations Accounts

Election Spending

Election Spending Limits

Assignments by candidates to political parties

Commencement of the election period

Exchequer funding of political parties

Use of facilities paid for out of public funds

Third Parties

Definition of political purposes

Receipt of a donation for political purposes

Registration requirements

Continued existence of third parties

Section 4 SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR REVIEW

PART I PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL

PART III PAYMENTS TO POLITICAL PARTIES AND REIMBURSEMENT OF ELECTION EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES

PART IV DISCLOSURE OF DONATIONS

Part V EXPENDITURE BY POLITICAL PARTIES AND CANDIDATES AT DÁIL ELECTIONS AND EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS

Part VI DONATIONS AND ELECTION EXPENSES AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

PART VIII MISCELLANEOUS

Appendix: Spending on behalf of political parties and candidates at the 2002 Dáil general election