The Electoral Commission has referred the ACT Party to the police for failing to disclose donations worth more than $30,000 in the lead up to last year's election.
The Commission announced it had taken the step today over donations from the party's biggest backers Alan Gibbs and Dame Jenny Gibbs.
ACT Party leader David Seymour says it's down to an administrative error.
"These things happen, the rules are quite technical. I don't think there's any malice here; in fact I'm certain there's not. It's just up to us to cooperate with the authorities and go through the motions," he says.
Under electoral laws, donations totalling more than $30,000 from a single donor must be disclosed within 10 working days, but the sum wasn't revealed until the party's annual return earlier this year.
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