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6 PART I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Political Donations Act 2000 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

(2) The Minister may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of the different provisions of this Act.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"anonymous donation" means a donation which the recipient is (whether because the donation is offered anonymously or by reason of deception or concealment) unable to ascertain the identity of the person giving the donation;

"bequest" includes any form of testamentary disposition;

"candidate" means a person who is nominated as a candidate at an election or at a presidential election, and includes any person (whether or not a member of any political association) who, on or after the date of the issue of a writ for the election or presidential election, as the case may be, is declared, by himself or others, as seeking nomination as a candidate at that election or (as the case may be) presidential election;

"donation report" means a report required to be prepared under section 12, 18, 19 or 21;

"election" has the same meaning as in the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218);

"election agent", in relation to a candidate, means the person named as his election agent under section 62 (1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act or section 43 (1) of the Presidential Elections Act (Cap. 240A);

"gift" includes bequest;