Advertising expenditure report
84.6(1)Within 90 days after polling day, a registered third party shall file an advertising expenditure report with the Supervisor.
84.6(2)An advertising expenditure report shall contain the following information:
(a)
a list of all election advertising expenses incurred by the third party;
(b)
details concerning the advertising to which the expenses referred to in paragraph (
a) relate, including the time and place of the advertisement;
(c)
the total value of election advertising contributions received by the third party, including election advertising contributions referred to in paragraph 84.3(3)(
g);
(d)
the following information with respect to each contributor to the third party:
(iii)
the class of the contributor under subsection 84.5(1);
(iv)
the amount or value of the election advertising contribution; and
(v)
the nature of the election advertising contribution;
(e)
information disclosed to the third party under subsection 84.5(4);
(f)
the following information with respect to any loan that the third party has been granted to finance its election advertising:
(i)
the amount of the loan;
(ii)
the rate of interest on the loan;
(iii)
the grantor of the loan;
(iv)
any guarantor of the loan;
(v)
the term of the loan;
(vi)
the repayment terms of the loan; and
(vii)
the date on which the funds were disbursed to the third party;
(g)
any outstanding liabilities to which the third party is subject; and
(h)
any other source of funding used by the third party to finance its election advertising, including the third party’s own funds.
84.6(3)An advertising expenditure report shall be on a form provided by the Supervisor.
84.6(4)An advertising expenditure report shall include a signed declaration from the following individuals stating that the report is complete and accurate:
(a)
the third party’s chief financial officer; and
(b)
if the third party’s chief financial officer did not sign the application under subsection 84.3(3), the individual who signed the application.
84.6(5)If a registered third party has not incurred any election advertising expenses, this shall be indicated in its advertising expenditure report.
84.6(6)A third party shall provide the Supervisor with any additional information that he or she may request with respect to its election advertising expenses, election advertising contributions or any other matter related to its election advertising.
84.6(7)If a registered third party’s election advertising expenses exceed the sum of its election advertising contributions and the amount of any of its own funds it has used to finance its election advertising, the third party shall file a further report within 6 months after it has filed its advertising expenditure report, which further report shall contain the following information:
(a)
the amount by which those expenses continue to exceed election advertising contributions and any amounts paid out of its own funds; and
(b)
if the third party received election advertising contributions after its advertising expenditure report was filed, the name and address of each contributor and the value of the contributions.
84.6(8)A registered third party shall file a report under subsection (7) within 12 months after it last filed a report under that subsection if, when that report was filed, its election advertising expenses continued to exceed the sum of its election advertising contributions and any amounts that it paid out of its own funds to finance its election advertising.
2008, c.48, s.1; 2017, c.28, s.49