Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:clause:3_351:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 351 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 867731–868672

the Criminal Code).
 (4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to or in relation to any announcement or publication made or authorized by any bona fide political party or by any bona fide branch thereof respecting a candidate who, by public announcement, has declared his or her candidature to be a candidature on behalf of or in the interests of that party.
 (5) The person whose name is notified under section 321D in relation to electoral matter as the person who authorised the communication of the matter, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is taken to have announced or published the matter, or caused it to be announced or published, for the purpose of this section.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to evidence to the contrary under subsection (5) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).

Part XXII—Court of Disputed Returns

Division 1—Disputed Elections and Returns