Australian Capital Territory
Electoral (Quarterly amount of administrative expenditure funding for 2018) Declaration 2017 
Notifiable instrument NI2017 — 575
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 2018) Declaration 2017.
2	Commencement 
	This instrument commences on 1 January 2018.
3	Calculation
The quarterly amount for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018 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 2017 - $5,480.96, according to Notifiable Instrument NI2016 - 625.
* 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 2017 quarter is 111.4.
INS2	for the September 2016 quarter is 109.4.
The quarterly amount is:
111.4  x  $5,480.96 = $5,581.16
109.4

4	Declaration
I declare the quarterly amount for 2018 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 $5,581.16
5	Expiry
	This instrument expires on 31 December 2018.

Rohan Spence 
Acting Electoral Commissioner

30 October 2017