ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 192 Canvassing on early voting days at early voting centres

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 192

192 Canvassing on early voting days at early voting centres

(1) Canvassing in early voting centre A person must not--

(a) canvass for votes, or

(b) solicit the vote of any elector, or

(c) induce any elector not to vote for any particular candidate or group of candidates, or

(d) induce any elector not to vote at the election,

within an early voting centre or within 6 metres of an entrance to an early voting centre on any day on which early voting is conducted at the early voting centre.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) Amplified canvassing audible in early voting centre A person must not contravene this subsection. This subsection is contravened if, on any day on which early voting is conducted at an early voting centre, each of the following paragraphs apply--

(a) the person engages in--

(i) canvassing for votes, or

(ii) soliciting the vote of an elector, or

(iii) inducing an elector not to vote for a particular candidate or group of candidates, or

(iv) inducing an elector not to vote at the election,

(b) the person engages, in any public or private place, in that activity any distance away from the early voting centre,

(c) the person uses any of the following to engage in that activity--

(i) a loud speaker,

(ii) a public address system,

(iii) an amplifier (whether fixed or mobile),

(iv) a broadcasting van,

(v) a sound system,

(vi) radio equipment,

(vii) any other equipment or device for broadcasting,

(d) that activity is audible within the early voting centre.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(3) Canvassing includes distributing electoral material Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), a reference to canvassing for votes includes a reference to distributing electoral material, whether or not the material is registered in accordance with Subdivision 6.