7Form, manner and content of disclosure for authorised political material

#### 7 Form, manner and content of disclosure for authorised political material (1) For the purposes of paragraphs 38(2)(b) and (c) of the Act, this section applies if particulars relating to an instance of communications activity in column 1 of an item of the table in subsection 5(1) are notified or announced in accordance with any of the following laws: (a) Part XXA of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918; (b) Part IX of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984; (c) subclause 4(2) of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992; (d) subsection 79A(2) of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983; (e) subsection 70A(2) of the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991. (2) A disclosure relating to the instance may be made in the same form and manner as the notification or announcement (instead of the form and manner in column 2 of the item of the table in subsection 5(1)). (3) The content of a disclosure relating to the instance may comply with subsection (4) of this section (instead of complying with subsection 5(2)). (4) A disclosure made in reliance on subsection (3) must: (a) include a statement that the communication is a registrable activity under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme; and (b) identify the foreign principal on whose behalf the communications activity is undertaken, if the foreign principal’s identity is not apparent from the information or material communicated or distributed, or from the particulars; and (c) state that the communications activity is undertaken on behalf of the foreign principal, if that is not apparent from the information or material communicated or distributed, or from the particulars.