20. Is there a limit on the amount a candidate can contribute to their own election campaign?

Election Campaign Finance Act 2013

Except where contribution is from a candidate to that candidate’s campaign financing account, or from a political party or a referendum committee to that political party’s or referendum committee’s campaign financing account, no contribution from a single source shall exceed twenty percent of the total contributions received by that candidate, political party or referendum committee.

It is important to note that the amount candidates can contribute to their own campaign has no legal limit. However, the same law (Election Campaign Finance Act 2013) states that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission shall  prescribe spending limits including the total amount that a candidate, political party or referendum committee may spend during an expenditure period, including the limit for media coverage.