Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 167 of 1991 - SECT 39

39. Section 121 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections:

"(1A) A person must not produce, publish or distribute or cause, permit or
authorise to be produced, published or distributed a video recording relating
to a referendum and intended or calculated to affect the result of the
referendum unless the name and address (not being a post office box) of the
person who authorised the video recording appears at the end of it.

"(1AB) Subject to subsection (1AC), a person must not print, publish or
distribute or cause, permit or authorise to be printed, published or
distributed an advertisement relating to a referendum and intended or
calculated to affect the result of the referendum that takes up the whole or
part of each of 2 opposing pages of a newspaper unless, in addition to
fulfilling the requirement under paragraph (1) (a) that the name and address
of the person who authorised the advertisement appear at the end of it, such
name and address also appears on the other page, or the part of the other
page, taken up by the advertisement.

"(1AC) Subsection (1AB) does not apply to an advertisement of the kind
referred to in that subsection:

   (a)  that is contained within:

   (i)  a broken or unbroken border; or

   (ii) broken or unbroken lines extending across, or partly across, the top
        and bottom of the advertisement; or

   (iii) a broken or unbroken line extending along, or partly along, each side
        of the advertisement; or

   (b)  that is printed so that to read one or more lines of the text of the
        advertisement it is necessary to read across both pages.";
(b) by inserting in subsection (2) ", (1A) or (1AB)" after "(1)".