New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 186

186 Name and address on electoral material

(1) A person must not, during the regulated period, print, publish, distribute or publicly display electoral material (other than the announcement in a newspaper of the holding of a meeting), without legibly showing on the material--

(a) the name and address of an individual on whose instructions the material was printed, published or distributed, and

(b) if the material has been printed, the name of the printer and address at which it was printed.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of a corporation--100 penalty units, or

(b) in any other case--20 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

(1A) For electoral material that is a social media post, the name and address of the individual on whose instructions the material was published or distributed must be published or distributed in a way, if any, prescribed by the regulations.

Example--: For a 3-minute TikTok video, the regulations may prescribe that the name and address be displayed for a specified number of seconds or with a specified size as a percentage of the video display.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to--

(a) a T-shirt, lapel button, lapel badge, pen, pencil or balloon, or

(b) a business or visiting card that promotes the candidacy of any person in an election, or

(c) a letter or other card--

(i) that bears the name and address of the sender, and

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

(d) any other article or thing prescribed (or of a class prescribed) by the regulations.