189BDigitally generated electoral material to include certain statements

189B Digitally generated electoral material to include certain statements

189B Digitally generated electoral material to include certain statements

(1) A person must not, during the regulated period, print, publish, distribute or publicly display digitally generated electoral material that depicts a digitally created person, event or place that a reasonable person would think is an actual person, event or place unless the material contains—

(a) a statement that the material is digitally generated electoral material, and

(b) the statement is—

(i) for audio visual content—written and spoken, or

(ii) for visual content—written, or

(iii) for audio content—spoken.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—20 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both, or

(b) otherwise—100 penalty units.

(2) The statement must be printed, published, distributed or publicly displayed or communicated, in a way, if any, prescribed by the regulations.

(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section if the defendant establishes that the defendant—

(a) took no part in determining the content of the digitally generated electoral material, and

(b) could not reasonably be expected to have known that the digitally generated electoral material contravened subsection (1).

(4) In this section—

digitally generated electoral material—see section 189A(4).

s 189B: Ins 2026 No 6, Sch 1[81].