13. Filing of declarations
(1) A person in public life shall, as soon as possible after the expiration of each financial year but within one month after the end of the financial year, file in respect of the financial year immediately preceding, the declaration required under this Act.
(2) The declaration shall be filed irrespective of the fact that, during the financial year in respect of which the declaration is required or in the following financial year, the declarant ceased to be a person in public life, otherwise than by reason of death.
(3) Despite subsection (1), where on the day this Act comes into operation a person is in public life, the person shall complete and file with the Commission a declaration in the prescribed form within 3 months of that day.
(4) Despite subsection (1), a person who becomes a person in public life after the commencement of this Act shall, not later than 3 months of his or her becoming a person in public life, file a declaration in the prescribed form with the Commission.
(5) Where a person in public life dies, the declaration which he or she would have been required to file, had he or she lived, shall not be filed.