Local Government (Elections) Act 1999

A person must not publish electoral material or cause electoral material to be published unless the material contains—

the name and address of the person who authorises publication of the material; and

in the case of printed electoral material—the name and prescribed information of the printer or other person responsible for undertaking its production.

If—

electoral material is published on the Internet; and

the name and address of the person who authorises publication of the material is immediately accessible on the Internet by viewers of the material in accordance with any requirements prescribed by regulation, that name and address need not be contained in the electoral material.

If electoral material is published in a newspaper that has been published at intervals of one month or less over a period of at least six months immediately preceding the publication of the electoral material, the name and prescribed information of the printer need not be contained in the electoral material.

If electoral material is published in a newspaper as a letter to the editor, it is an offence to publish the material without the name and address (not being a post box) of the writer of the letter.

If electoral material is published on the Internet by a person other than the person who established or controls the Internet site or other platform (or the relevant part of it), the person who established or controls the Internet site or other platform (or the relevant part of it) is not taken to have published the material or caused the electoral material to be published unless that person authorised, whether directly or indirectly, the publishing of the material on the Internet site or other platform.

In this section—

if the printer or other person responsible for undertaking production of the printed electoral material has a physical address—that address; or

if the printer or other person responsible for undertaking production of the printed electoral material does not have a physical address—the email address or website address of the printer or other person.