Voluntary Donations to an Election Fund.
Voluntary donations to the election fund of a candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign group on referendum shall be transferred through post offices, banks and credit organizations. These donations shall be accepted only from the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan and they should contain the following information about them:
Surname, name, patronymic;
Date of birth;
Address
Batch and serial number of identification document or a document, which substitutes it.
Voluntary donations of legal entities shall be received by bank transfer to the election fund of candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign group on referendum recording the following information:
Whether legal entities have state, municipal or foreign share in their charter capital, or not;
Its name;
Date of registration, identification number of taxpayer;
Bank account information.
Voluntary donations of physical and legal entities shall be transferred to the specific election account through post offices and banks not later than next banking day after they receive the relevant payment document. In this case, period for bank transfer cannot be more than 2 days.
A candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, campaign group on referendum shall have the right to return any donations to the donator, except for anonymous ones.
If donations are transferred to the election funds of candidates, registered candidates, political parties, blocks of political parties, and campaign group on referendum by citizens or legal entities who do not have right to do that, or if amount of donation is more than the amount mentioned in this Code, the candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign groups on referendum should return the whole amount or a part of it which exceeds the required amount to the donator within 10 days after its receipt, indicating the reasons for bank transfer and deducting expenses for transfer.
A candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign group on referendum shall not beresponsible for accepting the donations due to the inaccurate information mentioned in Articles 93.1 – 93.2 of this Code only when they did not receive the information about inaccurate documents in time.
Anonymous donations shall be transferred to the state budget by the candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign group on referendum within 10 days after receipt of such donations.
Citizens and legal entities can assist the nomination and election of a candidate, registered candidate by transferring donations to the relevant election funds.
If a candidate, registered candidate or political party, block of political parties, members of a campaign group on referendum or their authorized representatives on finance do not agree officially, it shall be prohibited:
To render paid services regarding the elections;
To sell goods;
To cover expenses for that from election fund.
Legal entities, their branches, representatives and other organizations shall be prohibited from rendering assistance free or at a baseless discount regarding the elections and referendum.
A citizen can personally render free, voluntary assistance to the candidate, registered candidate, political party, block of political parties, and campaign group on referendum, not inviting third person during the election campaigning.
