Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00045:reg:16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00045
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 16
Character Range: 16081–18237

16                                                                       Oral communication made in person                                                                                                                     (a) at the beginning of the communication; and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               (b) in any other communication, information or material made, displayed or distributed with the oral communication

Note 1: Communication or distribution of information is a communications activity only if the communication or distribution is to the public or a section of the public: see section 13 of the Act.
Note 2: Section 8 deals with the language in which a disclosure is to be made.

Content of disclosures except for radio advertisements and authorised political material
 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the content of the disclosure must:
 (a) identify the person undertaking the communications activity; and
 (b) identify the foreign principal on whose behalf the person undertakes the communications activity; and
 (c) include a statement that the communications activity is undertaken on behalf of the foreign principal; and
 (d) include a statement that the disclosure is made under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018.
Example: A disclosure could be worded along the following lines:
 "This material is communicated by [name of person] on behalf of [name of foreign principal]. This disclosure is made under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018."
Note: This subsection is subject to sections 6 and 7 (which provide for simpler disclosures for radio advertisements and authorised political material).

Instances of communications activity covered by 2 or more table items
 (3) If an instance of communications activity is in column 1 of 2 or more items of the table in subsection (1), the disclosure required by paragraph (1)(b) need be in the form and manner set out in column 2 of only one of those items.