Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUMS ACT - SECT 78

(1) On or after the date of issue and before the return of a writ for a referendum, a person must not -

(a) print or publish a printed referendum advertisement, handbill or pamphlet, other than an advertisement in a newspaper, without the name and place of business (if any) of the printer or other person producing the matter being printed at the foot of the matter;

(b) publish a referendum advertisement, handbill or pamphlet or issue a referendum notice, other than the announcement by advertisement in a newspaper of the holding of a meeting, without the name and address of the person authorising the advertisement, handbill, pamphlet or referendum notice appearing at the end of the document;

(c) print, publish or distribute a referendum advertisement, notice, handbill, pamphlet or card containing a representation of a ballot-paper or a representation apparently intended to represent a ballot-paper, having on it directions intended to or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with an elector in or in relation to the casting of his or her vote;

(d) print, publish or distribute a referendum advertisement, notice, handbill, pamphlet or card containing an untrue or incorrect statement intended to or likely to mislead or improperly interfere with an elector in or in relation to the casting of the elector's vote; or

(e) wilfully inform an elector that the elector is not enrolled, or that the elector is not enrolled for a particular division, if he or she is enrolled, or is enrolled for the division, as the case may be.

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) In subsection (1), "publish" and "distribute" includes publish or distribute, or publish and distribute, by electronic means and that subsection applies whether or not the electronic means results in the production of printed matter.