Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017A00099:clause:1_321c
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017A00099
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 321C
Character Range: 9155–10534

321C  Objects of this Part
 (1) The objects of this Part are to promote free and informed voting at elections by enhancing the following:
 (a) the transparency of the electoral system, by allowing voters to know who is communicating electoral matter;
 (b) the accountability of those persons participating in public debate relating to electoral matter, by making those persons responsible for their communications;
 (c) the traceability of communications of electoral matter, by ensuring that obligations imposed by this Part in relation to those communications can be enforced.
 (2) This Part aims to achieve these objects by doing the following:
 (a) requiring the particulars of the person who authorised the communication of electoral matter to be notified if:
 (i) the matter is an electoral advertisement, all or part of whose distribution or production is paid for; or
 (ii) the matter forms part of a specified printed communication; or
 (iii) the matter is communicated by, or on behalf of, a disclosure entity;
 (b) ensuring that the particulars are clearly identifiable, irrespective of how the matter is communicated.
 (3) This Part is not intended to detract from:
 (a) the ability of electoral matters to be communicated to voters; and
 (b) voters' ability to communicate with each other on electoral matters.

Division 2—Authorisation of certain electoral matter