27—Publication of electoral material
(1) A person must not
publish electoral material or cause electoral material to be published unless
the material contains—
(a) the
name and address of the person who authorises publication of the material; and
(b) in
the case of printed electoral material—the name and
prescribed information of the printer or other person responsible for
undertaking its production.
Maximum penalty: $2 500.
(1a) If—
(a)
electoral material is published on the Internet; and
(b) the
name and address of the person who authorises publication of the material is
immediately accessible on the Internet by viewers of the material in
accordance with any requirements prescribed by regulation,
that name and address need not be contained in the electoral material.
(2) If
electoral material is published in a newspaper that has been published at
intervals of one month or less over a period of at least six months
immediately preceding the publication of the electoral material, the name and
prescribed information of the printer need not be contained in the electoral
material.
(3) If
electoral material is published in a newspaper as a letter to the editor, it
is an offence to publish the material without the name and address (not being
a post box) of the writer of the letter.
Maximum penalty: $2 500.
(4) If
electoral material is published on the Internet by a person other than the
person who established or controls the Internet site or other platform (or the
relevant part of it), the person who established or controls the Internet site
or other platform (or the relevant part of it) is not taken to have published
the material or caused the electoral material to be published unless that
person authorised, whether directly or indirectly, the publishing of the
material on the Internet site or other platform.
(5) In this
section—
"prescribed information" means—
(a) if
the printer or other person responsible for undertaking production of the
printed electoral material has a physical address—that address; or
(b) if
the printer or other person responsible for undertaking production of the
printed electoral material does not have a physical address—the email
address or website address of the printer or other person.