constituteproject.org • Electoral districts • Electoral districts • Electoral districts • Electoral districts • Campaign financing • Referenda PDF generated: 19 Feb 2021, 13:13 b. the election or referendum, together with such recommendations as the Commission may consider necessary for the purposes of ensuring true, fair and effective elections and referenda. 3. The Electoral Commission shall, not later that three years after the coming into force of this Constitution and thereafter three years after the Commission last submitted a report in terms of clause (1)(b), submit to the National Assembly and the President a report in terms of clause (1)(b) together with such recommendations regarding changes in the number or boundaries of the electoral areas on Mahe and Praslin which the Commission considers necessary in the circumstances. 4. As soon as is practicable within thirty days after the submission of the report under clause (3) the President shall cause to be laid before the National Assembly the draft of an order by the President for giving effect to the recommendations contained in the report relating to changes in the number or boundaries of the electoral areas referred to in the report and the draft may make provision for any matter which appears to the President to be incidental to or consequential upon the other provisions of the draft 5. When the draft order laid before the National Assembly under clause (4) is approved by resolution of the National Assembly, the President shall make an order, which shall be published in the Gazette in terms of the draft and the order shall come into force on the next dissolution of the National Assembly after the order is so published. 6. Where the draft order laid before the National Assembly under clause (4) is not approved by resolution of the National Assembly, the President shall refer the matter to the Electoral Commission for its consideration. 117. An Act shall provide for the regulation and control by the Electoral Commission ofa. election or referendum expenditures by a political party or person taking part in an election or referendum; b. • Campaign financing • Restrictions on political parties contributions to or in favour of a political party or person taking part in an election or referendum or a cause in relation to an election or referendum; 118. An Act shall provide for the registration of political parties, qualifications for entitlement to be registered as a political party, conferment of corporate status on political parties, the maintenance of a register of political parties by the Electoral Commission, the submission of accounts and other prescribed particulars and information to the Commission by a registered political party, the provision of financial support from public funds to political parties, the control of financial and other contributions to political parties, the disposal of the assets of political parties on dissolution and the submission to the National Assembly by the Electoral Commission of an annual report in respect of the functions of the Commission under the Act. Seychelles 1993 (rev. 2011) Page 50