Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00466:section:38
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00466
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 38
Character Range: 68160–69107

38  Disclosure in communications activity
 (1) If:
 (b) a person undertakes communications activity on behalf of a foreign principal; and
 (c) the communications activity is registrable in relation to the foreign principal within the meaning of section 21 (activity in Australia for the purpose of political or governmental influence);
the person must make a disclosure about the foreign principal in accordance with rules made for the purposes of subsection (2).
Note: It is an offence not to make the disclosure (see subsection 58(2)), whether or not the person who undertakes the activity is registered under the scheme.
 (2) The rules may prescribe any or all of the following:
 (a) instances of communications activity;
 (b) when and how disclosures are to be made in relation to instances of communications activity;
 (c) the content, form and manner of disclosures;
 (d) circumstances in which a person is exempt from making a disclosure.