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122 :(b) is given to the competent authority within the time delimited by section 77 and in the manner prescribed in Regulations or, subject to those Regulations, as approved by the competent authority;
 * (c) contains the prescribed details or description of every such arrangement with a foreign principal during the reporting period, and the identity and other prescribed particulars of the foreign principal;
 * (d) is signed by—
 * (i) the politically significant person who is an individual; or
 * (ii) in any other case, the person who is required by section 64 to be responsible for the disclosure of reportable political donations received and accepted by or on behalf of that politically significant person; and
 * (e) is accompanied by a declaration in subsection (3) made by every person referred to in paragraph (d).

(3) The declaration required by subsection (2)(e) to accompany a foreign affiliations report of a politically significant person must contain a statement that, to the knowledge and belief of every person referred to in subsection (2)(d), there is no other reportable arrangement to which the politically significant person is party during the reporting period to which the foreign affiliations report relates.

(4) In this section and section 77 —
 * “appointed day” means the date of commencement of this section;
 * “initial reporting period” means—
 * (a) for a candidate at the first election after the appointed day or such a candidate’s election agent—
 * (i) in the case of an early initial election, the period of 12 months preceding—