(1)  A person must not purchase advertising time on television or radio in relation to the election of a candidate without the written authority of that candidate.

(2)  A candidate must not purchase, or permit to be purchased, advertising time on television or radio in relation to the election of the candidate if the advertising time, during the relevant period, is likely to exceed –

(a) 10 minutes on television; or

(b) 50 minutes on radio.

(3)  A person must not purchase advertising space in relation to the election of a candidate without the written authority of that candidate.

(4)  A candidate must not purchase, or permit to be purchased, advertising space in relation to the election of the candidate if the advertising space, during the relevant period, is likely to exceed a total of –

(a) 2 pages of advertising in a daily newspaper circulating in the municipal area; or

(b) 5 pages in any other newspaper circulating in the State.

(5)  The total expenditure for the purchase of advertising time or space by or on behalf of a candidate must not –

(a) in respect of a single election, exceed a total amount of $5 000; and

(b) in respect of an election for a councillor and an election for a mayor or deputy mayor, exceed a total amount of $8 000.

(6)  A candidate is taken to have incurred the total time and space of, and expenditure involved in, advertising which promotes that candidate in respect of an election irrespective of whether or not that advertising also promotes another candidate.

(7)  A candidate who authorises a person to conduct electoral advertising on his or her behalf relating to an election is taken to have personally undertaken that advertising.