112—Publication of electoral advertisements, notices etc
(1) A person must not
publish or distribute, or cause or permit to be published or distributed, an
electoral advertisement in printed form or through electronic publication on
the Internet unless—
(a) the
name (being the name by which the person is usually known) and address (not
being a post office box) of the author of the advertisement, or the person who
authorised its publication, appears at the end; and
(ab) if
the advertisement is authorised for a registered political party or a
candidate endorsed by a registered political party—the party's name or,
if the Register of Political Parties includes an abbreviation of the party's
name, that abbreviation appears at the end; and
(ac) if
the advertisement is authorised for a relevant third party—the
relevant third party's name appears at the end; and
(b) in
the case of an electoral advertisement that is printed but not in a
newspaper—the name and place of business of the printer appears at the
end.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the offender is a natural person—$5 000;
(b) if
the offender is a body corporate—$10 000.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to—
(a) a
car sticker, T-shirt, lapel button, lapel badge, pen, pencil or balloon; or
(b) an
article included in a prescribed class of articles.
(3) In this
section—
"relevant third party" means an organisation or other person, other than a
registered political party, candidate or natural person, who—
(a) as
at the day of publication of the advertisement to which
subsection (1)(ac) relates, intends to spend more than $2 000 on
electoral advertisements—
(i)
if the advertisement is published in an
election period—during that election period; or
(ii)
in any other case—during the election period for
the next general election due to occur; or
(b)
spent more than $2 000 on electoral advertisements during the
election period for the general election immediately preceding the day of
publication of the advertisement to which subsection (1)(ac) relates.