Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

REFERENDUMS ACT - SECT 85

Subject to this Act, a person must not during polling hours on polling day or a day to which polling is adjourned, within 10 metres of the entrance of a polling place or by means of sound amplification with the intention that the message is audible in or within 10 metres of the entrance of a polling place:

        (a)     canvass for votes;

        (b)     solicit the vote of an elector;

        (c)     induce an elector not to vote in a particular way;

        (d)     induce an elector not to vote at the referendum; or

        (e)     exhibit a notice or sign relating to the referendum.

Maximum penalty:     8 penalty units.