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Volume 63, No. 13

171/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 14, 2020

B.C. Reg. 171/2020 , deposited July 7, 2020, under the ELECTION ACT [section 283]. Regulation of the Chief Electoral Officer, dated July 7, 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 Third Party Sponsor Disclosure Report Regulation, B.C. Reg. 431/99, is

repealed, and

(

b) the attached Third Party Sponsor Disclosure Report Regulation is made.

— A. BOEGMAN, Chief Electoral Officer .

THIRD PARTY SPONSOR DISCLOSURE REPORT REGULATION

Contents

Definition

Classes of election advertising

Additional information to be included in election advertising disclosure reports

Definition

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

Classes of election advertising

2 For the purposes of

section 245 (1) (

a) of the Act, the value of the election advertising

sponsored by a third party sponsor must be reported according to

(

a) the following classes of pre-campaign period election advertising:

(

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

(ii) election surveys and polls;

(iii) newspapers and periodicals;

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

items;

(

v) radio;

(vi) search engine marketing and optimization;

(vii) signs;

(ix) television;

(

x) website displays;

(xi) other forms of advertising, and

(

b) the following classes of campaign period election advertising:

(

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

(ii) election surveys and polls;

(iii) newspapers and periodicals;

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

items;

(

v) radio;

(vi) search engine marketing and optimization;

(vii) signs;

(ix) television;

(

x) website displays;

(xi) other forms of advertising.

Additional information to be included in election advertising disclosure reports

3 For the purposes of

section 245 (1) (

d) of the Act, an election advertising disclosure

report must include the number of contributors who made one or more sponsorship contributions

that in total have a value of $250 or less.

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