South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts116—Published material to identify person responsible for political
content
(1) A person must not,
during an election period, publish material consisting of, or containing a
commentary on, any candidate or political party, or the issues being submitted
to electors, in written form, or by radio or television, unless the material
or the programme in which the material is presented contains a statement of
the name and address (not being a post office box) of a person who takes
responsibility for the publication of the material.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the offender is a natural person—$1 250;
(b) if
the offender is a body corporate—$5 000.
(2) This section does
not apply to—
(a) the
publication in a journal of a leading article;
(b) the
publication of a report of a meeting that does not contain any comment (other
than comment made by a speaker at the meeting) on any candidate, or
political party, or the issues being submitted to electors;
(c) the
publication in a journal of an article, letter, report or other matter if the
journal contains a statement to the effect that a person whose name and
address (not being a post office box) appears in the statement takes
responsibility for the publication of all electoral matter published in the
journal;
(ca) the
publication of a letter (otherwise than as described in paragraph (c))
that contains the name and address (not being a post office box) of the author
of the letter;
(d) a
news service or a current affairs programme on radio or television;
(e) any
other prescribed material or class of material.
(3) In this
section—
"journal" means a newspaper, magazine or other periodical.