Portugal - 2011 Party Finance Law
Title | Non-fulfilment of obligations imposed on the financing |
Chapter | 1 - The Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Pol?ticos (Supervising Body of Political Party Accounting and Funding) is an independent body which works with the Constitutional Court, providing it with technical assistance in the examination and auditing of |
Article |
29 1 - Political parties which fail to comply with the obligations set out under Chapter II shall be punished with a fine of not less than 10 times the value of the IAS and not more than 400 times the value of the IAS, whereas, in addition, the unlawfully received values will be forfeit in favour of the State. 2 - Leaders of political parties who personally participate in committing the offence specified in the preceding paragraph shall be punished with a fine of not less than 5 times the value of the IAS and not more than 200 times the value of the IAS. 3 - Individuals who are in breach of the provisions of articles 4 and 5 will be punished with a fine of not less than five times the value of the IAS and not more than 200 times the value of the IAS. 4 - Legal persons who violate the provisions of Chapter II will be punished with a fine of not less than twice the value of the prohibited donation and not more than five times this amount. 5 - The directors of legal persons who personally participate in committing the offence specified in the preceding paragraph will be punished with a fine of not less than 5 times the value of the IAS and not more than 200 times the value of the IAS. 6 - Failure to submit the accounts within the period specified in paragraph 1 of article 26 shall determine suspension of the payment of the state grant to which the party is entitled until the date of submission. |
Categories |
- External oversight (Sanctions) |
Source | http://www.parlamento.pt/Legislacao/Documents/Legislacao_Anotada/FinanciamentoPartidosPoliticosCampanhasEleitorais_Anotado.pdf |