Referendums Act 1997

If a referendum has taken place, each publisher of a journal who, during the referendum period, published in the journal an advertisement relating to the referendum must, before the end of 8 weeks after the voting day in the referendum, give the commission a return, in an approved form, stating—

particulars of the journal in which the advertisement was published; and

the name and address of the person at whose request the advertisement was published; and

the name and address of the person with whose authority the advertisement was published; and

the date on which the advertisement was published; and

particulars of the page in the journal on which the advertisement was published and the space in the journal occupied by the advertisement; and

whether or not a charge was made by the publisher for the publication of the advertisement and, if a charge was made, specifying the amount of the charge.

Subsection (1) applies to a publisher even if at the time the publisher published the advertisement the publisher was outside Queensland.

If, in a return under subsection (1), the amount of a charge is specified by a publisher in relation to an advertisement, the publisher must, in the return, state whether or not the charge was a charge at less than normal commercial rates having regard to the space in the journal occupied by the advertisement and the nature of the journal.Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

A publisher is not required to give a return under subsection (1) in relation to a referendum if the total amount of the charge made by the publisher for the publication of the advertisement referred to in the subsection and any other advertisement relating to a referendum that took place on the same day as the first-mentioned referendum does not exceed $1,000.