Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Local Government Act 1989 - SECT 55

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

55. 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 the name and address of the person who
authorised the electoral advertisement, handbill, pamphlet or notice appears
at its end.

Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 10 penalty units; In the case of a
body corporate, 20 penalty units.

(2) 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.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2)(a) is to be taken, by implication, to limit the
generality of regulations that may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(b).

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), address does not include a post office
box.