Advertisements relating to referendums
48 Advertisements relating to referendums
In this section referendum notice means notice, advertisement, handbill or pamphlet in relation to a referendum and intended or calculated to affect the result of the referendum.
A person who publishes a referendum notice without the name and address of the person authorising it being shown at the end of it shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $200.
A person who prints or publishes a printed referendum notice (other than an advertisement in a newspaper) without the name and place of business of the printer being printed at the end of it shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $200.
A person who distributes a referendum notice published in contravention of subsection (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100.
[Section 48 amended: No. 50 of 2003 s. 89(3).]
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