New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION FURTHER AMENDMENT (REFERENDUM) ACT 1930 - SECT 41

41 Misleading advertisements etc

(1) Every person who:

(a) prints, publishes, or distributes any advertisement or document containing a representation of a ballot-paper, or any representation apparently intended to represent a ballot-paper, and having thereon any directions intended or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with any elector in or in relation to the casting of the elector’s vote at a referendum, or

(b) prints, publishes, or distributes any advertisement or document containing any untrue or incorrect statement intended or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with any elector in or in relation to the casting of the elector’s vote at a referendum,

shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 2 penalty units.

(2) This section shall not prevent the printing, publishing, or distributing of any advertisement or document (not otherwise illegal) which contains instructions how to vote in favour of or against any Bill submitted to the electors by a referendum, if those instructions are not intended or likely to mislead any elector in or in relation to the casting of the elector’s vote.