Australian Capital Territory
Electoral (Expenditure cap for 2013) Declaration 2013 
Notifiable instrument NI2013 — 31
made under the
Electoral Act 1992, s205E (Working out indexation for expenditure cap)
1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Electoral (Expenditure cap for 2013) Declaration 2013.
2	Commencement 
	This instrument commences on the day after its notification.
3	Calculation
The yearly amount for the period 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013 is worked out as follows:
EC + (EC x CPI* percentage increase)
where:
CPI means the all groups consumer price index number, being the weighted average of the 8 capital cities, published by the Australian Statistician.
CPI percentage increase for the year, means the annual percentage increase in the CPI from the September quarter of the previous year to the September quarter of the year the calculation is made.
EC means the expenditure cap for the year the calculation is made, and for 2012 is $60,000, according to section 205D (a).
The CPI number for the September 2012 quarter is 101.8.
The CPI number for the September 2011 quarter is 99.8.
The annual percentage increase is calculated by dividing the increase in the September quarter CPI index by the earlier index and multiplying by 100%.  For the period September 2011 to September 2012, the percentage increase is calculated as follows:
(101.8 - 99.8)  x  100% = 2.0040%.
99.8
The expenditure cap amount for 2013 is calculated as:
60,000 + (60,000 x 2.0040%) = $61,202.40
In accordance with section 205E(4), if the calculation of the expenditure cap results in an expenditure cap that is not a multiple of $5, the amount declared must be rounded up to the next whole dollar amount that is a multiple of 5.
Therefore, the expenditure cap for 2013 is $61,205.
4	Declaration
I declare the amount for 2013 to be $61,205.
5	Expiry
	This instrument expires on 31 December 2013.

Andrew Moyes
Acting Electoral Commissioner

23 January 2013