Electoral Act 1992

The following people may ask the commissioner to publish information about a candidate, or a person nominated to be a candidate under section 105 (a nominee):

the candidate;

the nominee;

if the candidate or nominee was nominated by the registered officer of a registered party—the registered officer.

The commissioner must arrange for the information to be published on the Elections ACT website as soon as practicable after—

for information about a candidate—the commissioner receives the information; or

for information about a nominee—the nominee is declared to be a candidate under section 109.

The commissioner must determine by lot the order of the publication of information about candidates on the Elections ACT website.

Once only, within 14 days after the publication of a candidate’s information, the candidate may give the commissioner revised information about the candidate.

The commissioner must, as soon as practicable after receiving the revised information from the candidate, arrange for it to be published on the Elections ACT website.

If the commissioner is satisfied on reasonable grounds that any information given to the commissioner for publication includes content that is obscene, defamatory or otherwise unlawful, the commissioner must not publish that part of the information.

The commissioner must give a candidate whose information is not published under subsection (6), written notice of the reason for not publishing the information and the opportunity to amend the information so that it is suitable for publication.

For a party candidate, the registered officer of the registered party for the candidate may act on behalf of the candidate under this section.

In this section:

a photograph of the candidate; and

the contact details for the candidate including a link to a website used by the candidate for the purposes of the election; and

a statement about the candidate of not more than 500 words.