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Local Government (General) Regulation 2021
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#### 356N Display of posters
356N Display of posters
> > (1) Posters at polling place A person must not, on election day, display or cause to be displayed any poster of any size—
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> > > (a) within a polling place, or
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> > > (b) within 6 metres of an entrance to a polling place, or
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> > > (c) on the exterior of a building used as a polling place.
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> > Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
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> > (4) Application of this section to grounds of enclosure If—
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> > > (a) a building used as a polling place is situated in grounds within an enclosure, and
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> > > (b) the appointment by the election manager of the polling place does not indicate whether or not the grounds are part of the polling place,
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> > the grounds are not, but the building is, taken to be part of the polling place for the purposes of this section, unless a notice to the contrary is displayed under section 356U. If such a notice is displayed, the grounds are taken to be part of the polling place for the purposes of this section.
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> Note.
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> The display of election posters also constitutes development for the purposes of the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203). Subdivision 13 of Division 2 of Part 2 of [State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2008-0572) provides that the display of election posters is exempt development, subject to conditions, during the period commencing 5 weeks before and ending 1 week after the election day concerned.