Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_140:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 140 (pt 2/9)
Character Range: 137490–140122

the insertion of which is or is to be paid for or for which any reward or compensation or promise of reward or compensation is or is to be made.

            Penalty:
          (a) if the offender is a natural person — 5 penalty units; or
          (b) if the offender is a body corporate — 10 penalty units.

      143  Authors of reports etc. to be identified

       (1) A person must not, during the relevant period in relation to an election under these Rules, print, publish or distribute, or cause, permit or authorise to be printed, published or distributed, a newspaper, circular, pamphlet or dodger containing an article, report, letter or other matter containing electoral matter unless the author's name and address, or the authors' names and addresses, as the case may be, are set out at the end of the article, report, letter or other matter, or where part only of the article, report, letter or matter appears in any issue of a newspaper, circular, pamphlet or dodger, at the end of that part.

            Penalty:
          (a) if the offender is a natural person — 5 penalty units; or
          (b) if the offender is a body corporate — 10 penalty units.

       (2) This rule does not apply to the publication in newspaper of:
          (a) a leading article; or
          (b) an article that consists solely of a report of a meeting and does not contain electoral matter, other than comment made by a speaker at the meeting.

       (3) In this rule, address does not include a post‑office box.

      144 Cards in polling booth

       (1) A person must not, except for rule 73, display or leave in a polling booth a card or paper having on it a direction or instruction as to how a voter should vote or as to the method of voting.

            Penalty:   5 penalty units.

       (2) This rule does not apply to an official instruction displayed by proper authority at a polling booth.

      Note   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the exception in subrule (2) (see subsection 13.3 (3) of the Criminal Code).

      145  Signature to electoral paper

       (1) Every electoral paper which under these Rules has to be signed by any person must be signed by that person with his or her personal signature.

       (2) Where a person who is unable to sign his or her name in writing makes his or her mark as his or her signature to an electoral paper, the mark is to be deemed to be his or her personal signature, if it is identifiable as such, and is made in the presence of a witness who signs the electoral paper as such witness.

       (3) Nothing in this rule authorises any person