186Name and address on electoral material

#### 186 Name and address on electoral material 186 Name and address on electoral material > > (1) A person must not, during the regulated period, print, publish, distribute or publicly display electoral material, other than the announcement in a newspaper of the holding of a meeting, without legibly showing on the material the name and address of an individual on whose instructions the material was printed, published, distributed or publicly displayed. > > > > Maximum penalty— > > > > > (a) for an individual—20 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both, or > > > > > (b) otherwise—100 penalty units. > > > (1A) For electoral material that is a social media post, the name and address of the individual on whose instructions the material was published or distributed must be published or distributed in a way, if any, prescribed by the regulations. > > > > Example— > > > > For a 3-minute TikTok video, the regulations may prescribe that the name and address be displayed for a specified number of seconds or with a specified size as a percentage of the video display. > > > (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to— > > > > > (a) a T-shirt, lapel button, lapel badge, pen, pencil or balloon, or > > > > > (b) a business or visiting card that promotes the candidacy of any person in an election, or > > > > > (c) a letter or other card— > > > > > > > (i) that bears the name and address of the sender, and > > > > > > > (ii) that does not contain a representation or purported representation of a ballot paper for use in an election, or > > > > > (d) any other article or thing prescribed (or of a class prescribed) by the regulations. > > **s 186:** Am 2022 No 57, Sch 1\[7\] \[8\]; 2026 No 6, Sch 1\[80\].