ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 219 of 1992 - SECT 27

ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 219 of 1992 - SECT 27

27. After section 329 of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted:
Encouraging persons to mark ballot papers otherwise than in accordance with
Act

"329A.(1) A person must not, during the relevant period in relation to a House
of Representatives election under this Act, print, publish or distribute, or
cause, permit or authorise to be printed, published or distributed, any matter
or thing with the intention of encouraging persons voting at the election to
fill in a ballot paper otherwise than in accordance with section 240. Penalty:
Imprisonment for 6 months.

"(2) In this section:
'publish' includes publish by radio or television.".