NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 68

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investment: the council of the parent local authority must determine annually by resolution the rate of return it expects from its investment (notional debt/equity) in the business unit;

(vi) Form of agreement for goods and services provided: where the business unit supplies the parent local authority with goods or services for which payment is to be made under section 27 of the Act all the terms of conditions of such supply must be recorded in writing. Those terms and conditions must, insofar as is practicable, be:

(aa) the same as the parent local authority’s standard documentation for contracts with external suppliers of similar goods or services;

(bb) conform to the request for tender.

4. Reporting requirements—The notes to the audited financial statements of a local authority prepared under section 223E of the Local Government Act 1974, must include, in relation to payments made under sections 27 and 28 of the Act, from the local authority’s land transport disbursement account, the following amounts:

(a) total payments;

(b) operating costs (including all overhead costs and depreciation) of the business unit to which those payments are to be made;

(c) net surplus/deficit;

(d) the basis for reallocations of a net surplus or the funding of a net deficit.

Dated this 1st day of July 1996.

M. D. WILLIAMSON, Ministry of Transport.

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Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Electoral Commission

Broadcasting Act 1989

1996 General Election

Notices are Sought From Political Parties Seeking Qualification for Allocations of Broadcasting Time and Money Appropriated by Parliament for the Purpose of Broadcasting Election Programmes

The Broadcasting Act 1989 (the Act), describes the responsibilities of the Electoral Commission (‘the Commission’) to allocate to political parties which qualify under section 75 of the Act, time and money for political party election programmes.

Time may be made available free or at discounted rates by broadcasters, at the invitation of the Commission. The Act provides for the appropriation of money by Parliament for the purpose of enabling political parties which qualify to meet all or part of the costs of broadcasting election programmes during the election period.

Section 70A (1) of the Act requires the Commission to specify, by notice in the Gazette, a date by which any political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 of the Act or of money under section 74A of the Act in respect of the election period that will apply for the general election to be held this year, must notify the Commission in writing that it considers itself to be so qualified.

The Commission specifies 22 July 1996 as that date.

Section 70A (3) requires each political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 or of money under section 74A of the Act to notify the Commission in writing by that date.

Section 76 (3) of the Act provides, among other things, that the failure of any political party to give such notice or to comply with any other request of the Commission shall not prevent the Commission from making any allocation of time or money or making any determination and shall not affect the validity of such allocations or determinations.

Under section 70C of the Act, every notice given to the Authority by any party shall state, among other things—

(a) The full name of the political party; and

(aa) The name and address of the person providing the notice and the capacity in which he or she provides the notice; and

(ab) Where the person providing the notice is not the Secretary of the political party, the name and address of the Secretary of the political party; and

(b) Details of any relationships that may exist between that political party and any other political parties in New Zealand which the Electoral Commission may need to take into account in allocating time or money to political parties; and

(c) Either—

(i) That the party is registered on the Register of Political Parties; or

(ii) That the party is intending to apply for registration on the Register of Political Parties in order to be registered at least 3 months before the date in that year on which the Parliament is due to expire; or

(d) Where the political party considers that it is eligible for an allocation of time and money under section 75 (1) (a) (ii) of this Act—

(i) The full name of each person who has declared his or her intention of becoming a constituency candidate for that political party at the general election to be held that year; and

(ii) the electoral district for which each person to whom subparagraph (i) of this paragraph applies intends to be a constituency candidate.

Section 75 (1) of the Act provides criteria with which the Commission is to comply when allocating time or money to a political party. In respect of the election to be held in 1996, the criteria under section 75 (1) (a) have been amended by section 23B (3) of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 so that the Commission shall not allocate any time to a political party under section 73 of the Act or make any payment under section 74A of the Act in respect of money to any political party unless—

(i) That party was registered on the Register of Political Parties on the 5th working day after the date of commencement of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996; or