Other accounts held by a party

A registered party for state elections should keep an account for the purposes of accepting payments from the NSW Electoral Commission from the Administration Fund or New Parties Fund.

Parties may need to keep at least one other account for the following purposes:

• deposit party membership and affiliation fees that are within the maximum subscription amount (there are exemptions to the donation caps for party membership and annual subscription up to a maximum subscription amount)

• deposit political donations that exceed the applicable donation cap for the party, elected member, candidate or group (the account must be one kept exclusively for federal election campaigns)

• deposit political donations made by a prohibited donor or a donor who is not lawfully entitled to make political donations (the account must be one kept exclusively for federal election campaigns).

Find out more:

• State campaign account

• Local government campaign account