The Integrity Commission’s Political Financial Activities Unit (PFAU) has begun receiving weekly donation returns from the Political Parties who have now registered with the Commission. The weekly returns are required to be submitted to the Commission under the Political Activities Ordinance (the Ordinance) which came into force on 28 August 2012. The Ordinance gives the Integrity Commission responsibility for ensuring that political parties and candidates comply with their respective legal obligations under the Ordinance.
The weekly returns contain details concerning all donations received by the parties, including the name of the donor, the amount of the donation, when it was received in addition to other relevant details.
The Commission is pleased to confirm that all registered parties have been complying with their obligations to provide these returns in accordance with the Ordinance.
Under Section 37 of the Political Activities Ordinance, the Integrity Commission is required to maintain a register of all donations received by registered political parties.
In addition, the Commission will ensure that arrangements are put in place for the register containing this information to be accessible for members of the public and available for public inspection under Section 74 of the Ordinance. The Commission has therefore compiled this information on a register which is now available and accessible on the Commissions page of the government website: www.sov.tc. This has been utilised on a temporary basis until such time as the Commissions website is fully operational. Eugene Otuonye QC, Director of the Integrity Commission stated that “publication of this Information and making it readily available to the public of TCI is an important part of the Commission’s function in ensuring transparency and integrity of the process”.
