LAW NO. 19,964 AMENDS LAW NO. 19,884, ON TRANSPARENCY, LIMIT AND |! | CONTROL OF ELECTORAL EXPENDITURE Having present that the H. National Congress has |! |given its approval to the following Bill: " Article 1.-Enter the following Amendments to Law No 19,884 on transparency, limit and control of electoral expenditure: 1) Amend the second paragraph of Article 2, as follows: (a) Reposition the sentence "Shall be considered electoral expenses" for the following: " Only shall be considered as electoral expenses. ' (b) Replace (f) the following: "(f) The cost of the endorsements and the interest of the appropriations received for the electoral campaign, accrued until the date on which the provisions of Article 41 (1) are complied with." (2) Substitute the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh points of Article 14, for the following: " The quantities referred to in the first subparagraph shall be paid directly by the Fiscus within five days of the registration of the candidates in the records referred to in Articles 19 of Law No. 18,700, and 115 of the decree with force of law No. 1-19,704, to the parties and independent candidates outside the corresponding pact. The sums received must be documented by the General Electoral Managers or by the Electoral Administrators, in the case of independent candidates, in accordance with the rules laid down in Title III of this Agreement. (3) The following Article 14a is inserted: " Article 14a.-Candidates may endorse the invoices of their suppliers to their respective parties or to any financial institution or service provider, provided that it is carried out with after the nomination has been declared. These endorsements must be communicated to the Electoral Service, and shall be paid preferably, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the final paragraph of the following Article. " 4. referred to in the foregoing paragraph shall be paid directly to the political parties or independent candidates or by the payment of the outstanding bills of payment which these or those present to the General Treasury of the Republic, at the choice of ".................................. the provisions of the third indent of the preceding article shall be a remnant of the return which the candidate may not receive for any cause, such remnants shall pass to the party which has declared the candidate, up to the sum corresponding to the expenditure on which the party has actually incurred. ' 6) Amend Article 21 as follows: (a) Intercalase the following second indent: " The monthly contributions, the amount of which shall be higher than 20 units of promotion and less than one hundred units of promotion shall be reserved and shall apply in respect of the provided for in Article 19, the Service shall, for these purposes, make transfers in the accounts indicated by the respective treasurers of the political parties. ' (b) Substitute, in the fifth indent, which has become the sixth indent, the "The collection of the contributions referred to in this article" by " The collection of contributions to (7) Add the following Article 21a: " Article 21a.-The contributions received by the political training institutes registered by the political parties to the Electoral Service, shall be public, provided that they exceed one hundred units of monthly promotion for each contributor. Monthly contributions, the amount of which shall be higher than 20 units of promotion and less than one hundred units of promotion, shall be reserved and shall apply in accordance with Article 19, with the service of the Electoral, for these purposes, make the transfers in the accounts indicated by the representatives of the respective institute. The collection of the contributions referred to in this article, and which are not reserved, will be made directly to the appropriate political training institute, with receipt from them. Receipts shall be granted in the form set out in the sixth indent of the previous Article. For the purposes of this Article, each political party may register only a political training institute. '. (8) Add to the second paragraph of Article 30, before the final point and following the words' political party ', the expression' "or pact." 9) In the first paragraph of Article 37, replace the term "or" with a comma (,) and incorporate the following sentence "removal" from the word "removal": " or rejection of the appointment by the Electoral Service in the cases indicated in the Article 34 of this Law. "10. Substitute, in Article 43, the term" fifth "for" fifteenth ". Article 2-Facultate the President of the Republic so that within one year, counted from the entry into force of this law, by means of a decree with the law of the Ministry of the Interior, set the text recast, coordinated and systematised of law No. 19,884, on transparency, limit and control of electoral expenses and their modifications. " Having complied with the provisions of Article 82 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of Mexico, and as I have had to approve and sanction it, I therefore promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, 18 August 2004.-RICARDO LAGOS ESCOBAR, President of the Republic.-José Miguel Insulza Salinas, Minister of the Interior.-Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzmán, Minister of Finance. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Saluda Atté. to Ud., Jorge Correa Sutil, Undersecretary of the Interior. Constitutional Court Bill concerning the modification of the |! |law No. 19,884, on transparency, limit and control of the |! |electoral expenditure, in order to delimit the concept of |! |electoral expenditure, eliminate the registration of suppliers, |! |regulate the contributions reserved to political parties |! |and to political training institutes and expand the |! |term for defense in case of rejection of a |! |income account and campaign expenses The Secretary of the Constitutional Court, who |! |subscribes, certifies that the Honorable Senate sent the |! |bill enunciated in the rubric, approved by the |! | National Congress, in order for this Court to exercise |! |the control of constitutionality with respect to the article |! |only of the same, and by judgment of August 4, 2004, |! |dictated in the cars Role No. 416, declared it |! |constitutional. Santiago, August 6, 2004.-Rafael Larrain |! | Cruz, Secretary.