LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.87

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.87

4.87 .         Printing and publication of electoral material

        (1)         A person who prints, publishes or distributes electoral material or causes electoral material to be printed, published or distributed, commits an offence unless —

            (a)         in the case of all electoral material, the name and address (not being a post-office box) of the person who authorised the electoral material appears at the end of the electoral material; and

            (b)         in the case of electoral material that is printed otherwise than in a newspaper, the name and business address of the printer appears at the end of the electoral material.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to electoral material on an item included in a prescribed class of items.

        (3)         In this section —

        electoral material means any advertisement, handbill, pamphlet, notice, letter or article that is intended or calculated to affect the result of an election but does not include an advertisement in a newspaper announcing the holding of a meeting;

        print includes photocopy or reproduce by any means.

        [Section 4.87 amended: No. 49 of 2004 s. 41.]