Portugal - 2011 Party Finance Law
Title | Collection of unlawful revenue or incurrence of unlawful expenses |
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 |
30 1 - Political parties which obtain revenue for the election campaign in manners not permitted by the present law or which do not comply with the limits specified in Article 20 will be punished with a fine of not less than 20 times the value of the IAS and not more than 400 times the value of the IAS, whereas unlawfully received values will be forfeit in favour of the State. 2 - Individuals who are in breach of the provisions of article 16 will be punished with a fine of not less than 10 times the value of the IAS and not more than 50 times the value of the IAS. 3 - Legal persons who are in breach of the provisions of article 16 will be punished with a fine of not less than three times the amount of the prohibited donation and a not more than six times this amount. 4 - The directors of legal persons who personally participate in committing the offence referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be punished with a fine of not less than 10 times the value of the IAS and not more than 200 times the value of the IAS. |
Categories |
- External oversight (Sanctions) |
Source | http://www.parlamento.pt/Legislacao/Documents/Legislacao_Anotada/FinanciamentoPartidosPoliticosCampanhasEleitorais_Anotado.pdf |