Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electoral Act 2002 - SECT 83

Printing and publication of electoral advertisements, handbills, pamphlets or notices

83. Printing and publication of electoral advertisements, handbills, pamphlets
or notices



(1) A person must not print, publish or distribute or cause, permit or
authorise to be printed, published or distributed, an electoral advertisement,
handbill, pamphlet or notice unless-

   (a)  the name and address of the person who authorised the electoral
        advertisement, handbill, pamphlet or notice appears at its end; and

   (b)  in the case of an electoral advertisement, handbill, pamphlet or
        notice that is printed or published otherwise than in a newspaper, the
        name and place of business of the printer or publisher appears at its
        end.

Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 10 penalty units; In the case of a
body corporate, 50 penalty units.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), a person who makes copies for
distribution of an electoral advertisement, handbill, pamphlet or notice that
is published on the Internet is deemed to be the printer of those copies.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to-

   (a)  a car sticker, an item of clothing, lapel button, lapel badge, fridge
        magnet, pen, pencil or balloon; or

   (b)  an article included in a prescribed class of articles.

(4) Nothing in subsection (3)(a) is to be taken, by implication, to limit the
generality of regulations that may be made by virtue of subsection (3)(b).