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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL 2005
Serial 16
Electoral Amendment Bill
2005
Dr
Lim
AN ACT
to
amend the Electoral Act
NORTHERN TERRITORY
OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2005
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AN ACT
[Assented to [ ]
2005]
[Second reading [ ]
2005]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts
as follows:
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Act
2005.
Principal Act amended
This Act amends the Electoral
Act.
New Part
13, Division 1, Subdivision 7
After section 295 –
insert
Subdivision 7 – Other
offences
295A. Damaging etc. electoral
material
(1) A person must not without lawful authority
–
(a) destroy or damage any electoral material;
or
(b) for electoral material that is lawfully fixed to a place
or object or lawfully left at a place – remove or move the material from
the place or object.
Penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 3
months.
Examples for subsection (1) –
1. Defacing an election poster.
2. Moving an election poster from the place to which it is
fixed.
3. Removing an election pamphlet from a letterbox.
(2) In this section –
"damage", for electoral material, includes deface,
vandalise, tamper with and otherwise interfere with the
material;
"electoral material" means an electoral advertisement,
notice, handbill or pamphlet.
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