46Other advertising

46 Other advertising

46 Other advertising

(1) This clause applies to any advertising material in respect of which electoral expenditure is incurred by an elected member or a party, group or candidate (other than material required to be retained under clause 45).

(2) The party or the elected member, group or candidate (as the case requires) must keep the following advertising material for a period of 3 years after the date of the last presentation of the advertisement concerned as a record of electoral expenditure incurred in respect of that advertisement—

(a) a copy of the text of any radio or internet advertisement or a copy of the radio or internet advertisement,

(b) if the expenditure is incurred in respect of an advertisement in one or more newspapers or periodicals—

(i) the full page of the newspaper or periodical in which the advertisement is displayed, and

(ii) a statement identifying the advertisement and listing the name of each newspaper and periodical in which the advertisement was published, the size of the advertisement and the date of each publication,

(c) if the expenditure is incurred in respect of other printed election campaign material, a copy of each printed item.

Note.

It is an offence under section 145 of the Act to fail to keep the material for 3 years.