112Authors of reports etc. to be identified

112 Authors of reports etc. to be identified

(1) A person must not, during the relevant period in relation to an election under these Rules, print, publish or distribute, or cause, permit or authorise to be printed, published or distributed, a newspaper, circular, pamphlet or dodger containing an article, report, letter or other matter containing electoral matter unless the author’s name and address, or the authors’ names and addresses, as the case may be, are set out at the end of the article, report, letter or other matter, or where part only of the article, report, letter or matter appears in any issue of a newspaper, circular, pamphlet or dodger, at the end of that part.

Penalty:

(a) if the offender is a natural person — 5 penalty units; or

(b) if the offender is a body corporate — 10 penalty units.

(2) This rule does not apply to the publication in newspaper of:

(a) a leading article; or

(b) an article that consists solely of a report of a meeting and does not contain electoral matter, other than comment made by a speaker at the meeting.

(3) In this rule, address does not include a post‑office box.