New South Wales Repealed Regulations New South Wales Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) A person must not do any of the following:(a) print, publish or distribute a “how to vote” card, electoral advertisement, notice, handbill, pamphlet, or card, containing a representation of a ballot-paper or a representation apparently intended to represent a ballot-paper, if the card, advertisement, notice, handbill or pamphlet includes directions intended or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with an elector in or in relation to the casting of his or her vote,(b) print, publish or distribute a “how to vote” card, electoral advertisement, notice, handbill, pamphlet, or card, containing an untrue or incorrect statement intended or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with an elector in or in relation to the casting of his or her vote,(c) print, publish or distribute a “how to vote” card, electoral advertisement, notice, handbill, pamphlet or card using:(i) the name, an abbreviation or acronym of the name or a derivative of the name of a party respectively included in the Local Government Register of Parties (or a name or abbreviation resembling such a name, abbreviation, acronym or derivative) in a way that is intended or likely to mislead any elector, or(ii) the word “Independent” and the name or an abbreviation or acronym of the name or a derivative of the name of a party respectively included in that Register in a way that suggests or indicates an affiliation with that party (unless the name of the party in that Register includes the word “Independent”).Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) A person is not guilty of an offence against this clause merely by printing, publishing or distributing a “how to vote” card which contains instructions on how to vote for a particular candidate or candidates, so long as those instructions are not intended or likely to mislead an elector in or in relation to the casting of his or her vote.