New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 151E

151E Name and address of author and printer to be printed on advertisements etc

(1) Any person who prints, publishes or distributes any matter, being an advertisement, “how to vote” card, handbill, pamphlet, poster, or notice, containing any electoral matter as defined in section 151B (other than the announcement in a newspaper of the holding of a meeting), without:

(a) the name and address of the person on whose instructions the matter was printed, and

(b) the name of the printer and address at which it was printed,

being printed in legible characters thereon, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

(2) Where a newspaper contains an advertisement referred to in subsection (1) and the name of the printer of the newspaper and the address at which it was printed appear on the newspaper in accordance with any Act, subsection (1) does not apply so as to require that name and address to be printed on the advertisement.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to:

(a) a T-shirt, lapel button, lapel badge, pen, pencil or balloon, or

(b) a business or visiting card that promotes the candidacy of any person in an election, or

(c) a letter or other card:

(i) that bears the name and address of the sender, and

(ii) that does not contain a representation or purported representation of a ballot paper for use in an election, or

(d) any other article prescribed (or of a class prescribed) by the regulations.