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Political Donations Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Obligations of Certain Donors

21. Reporting of multiple small donations to political associations

(1)

This section applies where a person (called in this section the donor) has during the course of a calendar year made donations (each of which is called in this section a small donation) to a political association, the aggregate value of which is not less than $10,000, or any other prescribed sum.

(2)

The donor must make a donation report in the prescribed form to the Registrar in respect of the small donations, giving the following particulars:

(a)

the aggregate value of the donations and the year in which they were made;

(b)

the name of the political association to which they were made; and

(c)

the full name and address of the donor and the other details in respect of the donor as are required by the Schedule to be given in respect of a donor of a recordable donation,whether or not the small donations are subject to inclusion in the donation report under section 12 of the political association concerned.

(3)

Every donation report under subsection (2) must be sent to the Registrar no later than 31 January of the year following that in which the donations were made.

(4)

Every donation report under subsection (2) must be accompanied by a declaration in the prescribed form by the donor stating —

(a)

that small donations whose aggregate value was that specified in the report were made by the donor to the specified political association during the specified year; and

(b)

that no other small donations were made by the donor to that political association during that same year.

Terms defined in this Act

donation
Defined · s 3
“donation”, in relation to a candidate at an election or at a presidential election, means —(a)any gift of money or other property to the candidate or his or her election agent;(b)any money spent (otherwise than by the candidate as permitted by any other written law) in paying any expenses incurred, directly or indirectly, by the candidate or by his or her election agent or any person authorised by his or her election agent;(c)any money lent to the candidate or his or her election agent otherwise than on commercial terms;(d)the provision otherwise than on commercial terms of any property, services or facilities (including the services of any person) to the candidate or his or her election agent; or(e)the provision of any sponsorship in relation to the candidate,that is given, spent, lent or provided (whether before or after he or she becomes a candidate) for the purposes of the candidate’s election.(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
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donation report
Defined · s 2
“donation report” means a report required to be prepared under section 12, 18, 19 or 21;
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political association
Defined · s 2
“political association” means —(a)a political party or an organisation that has as one of its objects or activities the promotion or procuring of the election to Parliament or to the office of President of a candidate or candidates endorsed by the organisation; or(b)an organisation (not being a branch of any organisation) whose objects or activities relate wholly or mainly to politics in Singapore and that is declared by the Minister, by order in the Gazette, to be a political association for the purposes of this Act;
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recordable donation
Defined · s 2
“recordable donation”, in relation to any donation report, means a donation required by this Act to be recorded in that report;
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Registrar
Defined · s 2
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Political Donations appointed under section 7, and includes any Assistant Registrar appointed under that section;
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