Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345:section:198:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 198 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 326746–327684

subsection.

Declaration that report and response will be available
 (7) A declaration under paragraph (6)(b) must be signed by the secretary or other prescribed officer of the organisation or branch (as the case requires).
 (8) A person must not, in a declaration for the purposes of paragraph (6)(b), make a statement if the person knows, or is reckless as to whether, the statement is false or misleading.
Civil penalty: 100 penalty units.

Definitions
 (9) In this section:
appropriate newspaper, in relation to an organisation or branch, means a newspaper, or newspapers, whose circulation covers the main geographical areas where members of the organisation or branch reside.
next edition, in relation to publishing a relevant extract of a post‑election report or response in a journal, means the first edition of the journal in which it is reasonably practicable for the report or the response (as the case may be) to be published.