Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts6.(1) Subject to subsection (4), a person who prints any document which the person knows, or has reason to believe, is intended to be sold or distributed (whether to the public generally or to a restricted class or number of persons) or to be publicly displayed shall--
(a) at the time of, or within 24 hours after, printing the document print on at least 1 copy of the document in legible characters the name and address of the person for whom or on whose instructions the document was printed; and
(b) subject to paragraph (c) retain for a period of 6 months from the date on which the document was printed, a copy of the document on which that name and address are so printed; and
(c) upon the request of a police officer made at any time during that period, produce or surrender without payment the copy of the document so retained; and
(d) at the time of printing, print in legible characters--
(i) his or her name, or if the person carries on business under a name registered under the Business Names Act 1962 , that name; and
(ii) the address of the person's place of business; and
(iii) the year in which the document is printed;
on the front or first or last page of the document.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), no person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, distribute, affix to any object or structure in a public place, leave in a public place or otherwise expose to public view, a document on which there have not been printed in legible characters on the front or first or last page the name of the printer or the name under which the person carries on business, the address of the person's place of business and the year in which the document was printed.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(3) It shall be a defence if a person charged with an offence under subsection
(2) proves that the document concerned was not printed in this State.
(4)
This section does not apply to--
(a) a document printed for the Crown in right of a State (including the State of Queensland) or in right of the Commonwealth or a document printed for any authority, corporation or instrumentality established by an Act of Parliament of a State (including the State of Queensland) or of the Commonwealth; or
(b) a document printed by order or under the authority of a House of Parliament of a State (including the Legislative Assembly) or of the Commonwealth; or
(c) a document printed by or under the authority of the Government Printer of any State (including the State of Queensland) or the Government Printer of the Commonwealth; or
(d) a representation of a work of art; or
(e) a document containing only the name, address, telephone number or profession of any person and the articles in which the person deals, or some 1 or more of those particulars; or
(f) a document containing only information relating to proposed sale of property; or
(g) bank notes, bills of exchange, dividend warrants, promissory notes or other securities for the payment of money; or
(h) stocks, shares, bonds, debentures or other like securities and transfers and assignments thereof; or
(i) receipts for money or goods; or
(j) documents used in proceedings in courts such as writs, summonses, complaints, plaints and warrants; or
(k) a circular or letter from any company or from any association registered under any Act to the directors, shareholders or members thereof, which bears the true name and address or place of business of the secretary or other officer thereof, or any circular notice or letter issued by any person and bearing the person's true name and address.