Acts Online
GT Shield

Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act, 1997 (Act No. 103 of 1997)

7. Recovery of allocated moneys irregularly spent by political parties

 

(1)
(a) Where any moneys allocated to a political party in terms of section 5 have not been spent in accordance with the requirements of this Act, the accounting officer of that party contemplated in section 6(1)(b), will be liable to repay to the Commission the moneys that were irregularly spent.
(b) Any moneys so repaid, will be credited to the Fund.

 

(2) The Commission, represented by the chief executive officer of the Fund, must recover the moneys irregularly spent, and may do so by—
(a) instituting a civil claim in respect of the amount irregularly spent against that accounting officer of the political party concerned; or
(b) setting off the amount irregularly spent against any allocation that may be or may become payable to the political party.