Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 125

125. (1) A person shall not, during the referendum period in relation to 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 issue
relating to the referendum 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.

(2) This section does not apply to the publication in a newspaper of-

   (a)  a leading article;

   (b)  an article which consists solely of a report of a meeting and does not
        contain any comment (other than comment by a speaker at the meeting)
        upon any issue relating to the referendum.
(3) In this section ''address'' does not include a post office box.