Political parties shall not receive donations:
(a) which are evidently made in the expectation of, or in return for, some specific financial or political advantage; and, or
(b) from any public corporation or any parastatal body, company, or entity in which the State has a controlling interest:
Provided that political parties shall be permitted to receive services from State sources only under a special law which shall regulate:
(i) assistance in kind (such as air-time, access to means of communication and related matters);
(ii) the proportions on the basis of which such assistance is to be provided to different political parties; and
(iii) the timing of the assistance given before elections, after elections, during the European Parliament election period, the Local Council election period, the general election period and during referendum campaigns;
(c) given anonymously;
(d) given confidentially and subject to the condition that the source shall not be revealed to third parties although the source of the donation is known to the political party in an amount exceeding five hundred euro (€500) from the same source in any year;
(e) in excess of twenty-five thousand euro (€25,000) during one calendar year from the same source:
Provided that for the purposes of this paragraph companies forming part of the same group of companies or which directly or indirectly are controlled by each other or by the same person or group of persons, shall be considered as a single source;
(f) consisting of a loan on more favourable terms than ordinary commercial terms at the time when the loan was made, where the interest in respect of a period of twelve months which would have been payable by the political party had the loan been taken on ordinary commercial terms would have exceeded the interest actually owed for the same period by the political party to the person making the loan by an amount in excess of twenty-five thousand euro (€25,000);
(g) From a foundation, trust or a body corporate where the ultimate beneficial owner is not identifiable.
