South Australian Numbered Acts

ELECTORAL (MISCELLANEOUS) AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO 20 OF 2017) - SECT 26

26—Amendment of section 112A—Special provision relating to how-to-vote cards

Section 112A—after subsection (5) insert:

        (5a)         If the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that a how-to-vote card has been distributed in contravention of this section, the Electoral Commissioner may request that the person who authorised the card do either or both of the following:

            (a)         immediately cease distributing, or causing or permitting the distribution of, the how-to-vote card;

            (b)         publish a retraction in specified terms and a specified manner and form,

(and in proceedings for an offence against this section arising from the distribution of the how-to-vote card, the authorised person's response to a request under this subsection will be taken into account in assessing any penalty to which the person may be liable).