Australian Capital Territory
Electoral (Quarterly amount of administrative expenditure funding for 2016) Declaration 2015 
Notifiable instrument NI2015 — 687
made under the
Electoral Act 1992, s215F (Working out indexation for administrative expenditure)
1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Electoral (Quarterly amount of administrative expenditure funding for 2016) Declaration 2015.
2	Commencement 
	This instrument commences on 1 January 2016.
3	Calculation
The quarterly amount for the period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 is determined by the formula:
INS1  x  P
INS2
where:
INS1	means the index number* published for the September quarter in the preceding year. 
INS2	means the index number* published for the September quarter in the year immediately before the preceding year.
P means, for 2015 - $5,330.66, according to Notifiable Instrument NI2014 - 632.
* The index number, in relation to a quarter, means the all groups consumer price index number, being the weighted average of the 8 capital cities, published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter.
INS1	for the September 2015 quarter is 108.0.
INS2	for the September 2014 quarter is 106.4.
The quarterly amount is:
108.0  x  $5,330.66 = $5,410.82
106.4

4	Declaration
I declare the quarterly amount for 2016 for the purposes of -
(a)	section 215C(3), definition of A, paragraph (b); and 
(b)	section 215E(2), definition of A, paragraph (b);
to be $5,410.82
5	Expiry
	This instrument expires on 31 December 2016.

Rohan Spence
Acting Electoral Commissioner

18 November 2015