Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts80. Articles to be signed
(1) Subject to subsection (3), on and after the date of issue and before the return of the writ for a referendum, every article, report, letter or other matter commenting on the issues being submitted to the electors at the referendum, published in any newspaper, circular, pamphlet or handbill must -
(a) be signed by the author; or
(b) state the true name and address of the author at the end of the article, report, letter or other matter, or that part of it which is published.
Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a newspaper editor or proprietor who permits, in a newspaper that he or she edits or owns, the contravention or failure to comply with subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) This section does not apply to the publishing in a newspaper of -
(a) a leading article; or
(b) an article that consists solely of a report of a meeting and does not contain any comment, other than comment made by a speaker at the meeting, on the issues being submitted to the electors.