Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 116

116. Section 164 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(1) A person shall not, during the relevant period in relation to
an election under this Act or a referendum, print, publish or distribute, or
cause, permit or authorize to be printed, published or distributed, a
newspaper, circular, pamphlet or 'dodger' containing an article, report,
letter or other matter commenting on any candidate, political party or the
issues being submitted to the electors unless the author's name and address,
or the authors' names and addresses, as the case may be, are set out at the
end of the article, report, letter or other matter, or where part only of the
article, report, letter or matter appears in any issue of a newspaper,
circular, pamphlet or 'dodger', at the end of that part.

Penalty:

   (a)  if the offender is a natural person-$500; or

   (b)  if the offender is a body corporate-$2,500.'';

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (2); and

   (c)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

''(4) In this section, 'address' does not include a post-office box.''.