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ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL 2005

Serial 16
Electoral Amendment Bill 2005
Dr Lim

A BILL
for

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:

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Electoral Amendment Act 2005.

2. Principal Act amended

This Act amends the Electoral Act.

3. 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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