Page:Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021.pdf/124

124 ::: (being after the appointed day), and ending on (and including) 31 December of the same year that day the person becomes a politically significant person falls;
 * “politically significant person”, in relation to a foreign affiliations report for any pre-election period, does not include an election agent;
 * “reporting period” means—
 * (a) for a candidate at an election, the pre-election period of the election;
 * (b) for an election agent of a candidate at an election, the period starting on the day the person becomes an election agent of the candidate (being after the appointed day), and ending on (and including) the 31st day after the results of that election are published; and
 * (c) for any other politically significant person, the period of 12 months starting 1 January and ending 31 December in any year,
 * and includes an initial reporting period.

When to make foreign affiliations report

77.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), disclosure of every reportable arrangement to which a politically significant person is party during a reporting period must be given to a competent authority—
 * (a) in relation to a disclosure of arrangements or agreements to which a candidate is during the pre-election period for that election a party—no later than 2 clear days before nomination day of that election;
 * (b) in relation to a disclosure of arrangements or agreements to which an election agent of a candidate is party—no later than the 31st day after the results of that election are published; and