ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 187

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 187

187 .         Illegal practices defined

        (1)         In addition to bribery and undue influence, the following shall be illegal practices:

            (a)         Any publication of any electoral advertisement (other than an advertisement in a newspaper announcing the holding of a meeting), handbill, or pamphlet, or any issue of any electoral notice without at the end thereof the name and address of the person authorising the same.

            (b)         Printing or publishing any printed electoral advertisement, handbill, or pamphlet (other than an advertisement in a newspaper), without the name and place of business of the printer being printed at the foot of it.

            (c)         The attendance by a candidate after nomination day at any committee meeting held for the purpose of promoting or procuring his election on premises on which the sale by retail of any intoxicating liquor is authorised by licence, except where the meeting is held in or on a part of those premises in or on which part, intoxicating liquor is not ordinarily sold by retail to members of the public and is a part that is ordinarily let for the holding of meetings.

            (d)         The attendance by any member of a committee formed in the interests and with a view to obtain the return of any candidate at an election at a committee meeting held on any premises licensed to sell by retail spirituous liquors, except where the meeting is held in or on a part of those premises in or on which part spirituous liquors are not ordinarily sold by retail to members of the public and is a part that is ordinarily let for the holding of meetings.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(a) and (b) do not apply in relation to —

            (a)         T-shirts, lapel buttons, lapel badges, pens, pencils or balloons; or

            (b)         business or visiting cards that promote the candidacy of any person in an election; or

            (c)         letters and cards —

                  (i)         that bear the name and address of the sender; and

                  (ii)         that do not contain a representation or purported representation of a ballot paper for use in an election;

                or

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

        (3)         Nothing in subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c) is to be regarded as limiting, by implication, the kind of regulations that can be made for the purposes of subsection (2)(d).

        [Section 187 amended: No. 68 of 1964 s. 36; No. 39 of 1979 s. 26; No. 36 of 2000 s. 79.]