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South Australia
Electoral (Limitation on Display of Electoral
Advertisements) Amendment Bill 2014
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electoral
Act 1985.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electoral
Act 1985
3Amendment of section 115—Limitations on
display of electoral advertisements
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Limitation on Display of
Electoral Advertisements) Amendment Act 2014.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Electoral
Act 1985
3—Amendment
of section 115—Limitations on display of electoral
advertisements
(1) Section 115—after subsection (2) insert:
(2a) A person must not,
within any electoral district relating to a House of Assembly election, exhibit
or cause to be exhibited more than 100 electoral advertisements on public
roads (including structures, fixtures or vegetation on public roads) or in other
public places.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.
(2b) For the purposes of
subsection (2a), an
electoral advertisement will—
(a) if it relates to a particular registered political party, or to a
candidate endorsed by a particular registered political party—be taken to
be exhibited by the registered officer of the party; and
(b) if it relates to a candidate who is not endorsed by a registered
political party—be taken to be exhibited by the candidate.
(2) Section 115—after subsection (3) insert:
(4) In this section—
public place means a public place within the meaning of the
Local
Government Act 1999;
public road means a road within the meaning of the Road
Traffic Act 1961.