29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

"The Registrar shall on or before 30th January each year Political determine the total amount of financial assistance to be paid out Parties of the Fund to the registered political parties which on the 1st 2/12/1996 day of January of that year are registered in the register kept under section 4 and are eligible for payment of financial assistance under subsection (2).

Each registered political party referred to in subsection (1) which had nominated candidates for the immediately preceding general election of the National Assembly shall be entitled to receive out of the amount determined under that subsection such sum as is equal to the proportion which the total number of valid votes cast or deemed to be cast in favour of the candidates nominated by that party for that election bears to the total number of valid votes cast at that election."

(Section 29(1&2), Political Parties Registration and Regulation Act, Cap 173).