(1) Despite anything in sections 62E to 62H, on the commencement of section 63 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2000 any political party that is at that time a parliamentary party becomes a registered political party by operation of this subsection.

(2) Subsection (1) only applies to a political party if the party was in existence on 14 June 2000 and at least one member of party was a member of the Assembly or the Council on that day.

(3) The registration of a political party under subsection (1) ceases to have effect at the end of the period of 3 months from the day on which section 63 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2000 commences unless, within that period, the secretary of the political party provides the Electoral Commissioner with the information and documents referred to in section 62E(4)(a), (b), (c), (e) and (f).

[Section 62I inserted by No. 36 of 2000 s.63.]