South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts116—Published material to identify person responsible for political
content
(1) A person must not,
during an election period, publish material consisting of, or containing a
commentary on, any candidate or political party, or the issues being submitted
to electors, in written form, in a journal published in electronic form on the
Internet or by radio or television or broadcast on the Internet, unless the
material or the programme in which the material is presented contains a
statement of the name and address (not being a post office box) of a person
who takes responsibility for the publication of the material.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the offender is a natural person—$1 250;
(b) if
the offender is a body corporate—$5 000.
(2) This section does
not apply to—
(a) the
publication in a journal (including a journal published in electronic form on
the Internet) of a leading article;
(b) the
publication of a report of a meeting that does not contain any comment (other
than comment made by a speaker at the meeting) on any candidate, or
political party, or the issues being submitted to electors;
(c) the
publication in a journal (including a journal published in electronic form on
the Internet) of an article, letter, report or other matter if—
(i)
the name and address (not being a post office box) of a
person who takes responsibility for the publication of the material is
provided to the publisher of the journal and retained by the publisher for a
period of 6 months after the end of the election period; and
(ii)
the journal contains a statement of the name and postcode
of the person who takes responsibility for the publication of the material;
(ca) the
publication of a letter (otherwise than as described in paragraph (c))
that contains the name and address (not being a post office box) of the author
of the letter;
(d) a
news service or a current affairs programme on radio or television or
broadcast on the Internet;
(e) any
other prescribed material or class of material.
(3) In this
section—
"journal" means a newspaper, magazine or other periodical.