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Volume 63, No. 3

24/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 25, 2020

B.C. Reg. 24/2020 , deposited February 19, 2020, under the ELECTION ACT [section 283]. Regulation of the Chief Electoral Officer, dated February 19, 2020.

Under the authority of

section 283 of the Election Act , after consultation with the Election Advisory Committee under that Act, the Chief

Electoral Officer orders that

(

a) the Leadership Contestant Financing Regulation, B.C. Reg. 433/99, is repealed,

and

(

b) the attached Leadership Contestant Financing Reports Regulation is made.

— A. BOEGMAN, Chief Electoral Officer .

LEADERSHIP CONTESTANT FINANCING

REPORTS REGULATION

Contents

Definition

Additional information to be included in leadership contestant financing report

Classes of contestant expenses

Definition

1 In this regulation, "Act" means the Election Act .

Additional information to be included in leadership contestant financing report

2 For the purposes of

section 211 (2) (

f) of the Act, a leadership contestant financing

report must include the following information:

(

a) the name of the political party the leadership contestant sought to lead;

(

b) the dates on which the leadership contest started and ended;

(

c) for each fundraising function held by or on behalf of the leadership contestant,

details about income not reported as contributions, including the number of tickets

sold and the charge per ticket;

(

d) details about income received by the leadership contestant.

Classes of contestant expenses

3 For the purposes of

section 211 (3) of the Act, the contestant expenses incurred

by or on behalf of a leadership contestant must be reported according to the following

classes:

(

a) accounting and audit services;

(

b) the following classes of advertising:

(

i) commercial canvassing in person, by telephone or by mobile device;

(ii) newspapers and periodicals;

(iii) promotional materials, including newsletters, brochures, buttons and novelty

items;

(iv) radio;

(

v) search engine marketing and optimization;

(vi) signs;

(viii) television;

(ix) website displays;

(

x) other forms of advertising;

(

c) bank charges;

(

d) conventions, workshops and meetings;

(

e) donations and gifts;

(

f) fundraising functions;

(

g) furniture and equipment;

(

h) interest expense;

(

i) net losses arising from fundraising functions;

(

j) office rent, utilities, insurance and maintenance;

(

k) office supplies and stationery;

(

l) personal contestant expenses paid by the leadership contestant;

(

m) personal contestant expenses paid or reimbursed from the account referred

to in

section 177 (2) (

b) of the Act for the leadership contestant;

(

n) postage and courier;

(

o) professional services;

(

p) research and data, including election surveys and polls;

(

q) salaries and benefits;

(

r) social functions;

(

s) subscriptions and dues;

(

t) telecommunications and information technology;

(

u) transfers, referred to in

section 180 (6) of the Act, made by the leadership

contestant;

(

v) travel;

(

w) other contestant expenses.

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