Part VI Controls relating to third party national election campaigns

Chapter II Financial controls

Returns

99AF1Declaration by responsible person as to statement of accounts under section 96A

1

Each statement of accounts prepared under section 96A must, when delivered to the Commission, be accompanied by a declaration which complies with subsection (2) and is signed by the responsible person.

2

The declaration must state—

a

that the responsible person has examined the statement in question; and

b

that to the best of that person's knowledge and belief it is a complete and correct statement of accounts as required by law.

3

A person commits an offence if—

a

that person knowingly or recklessly makes a false declaration under this section; or

b

subsection (1) is contravened without reasonable excuse at a time when that person is the responsible person in the case of the recognised third party to which the statement of accounts relates.