Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 285

285 Returns by publishers

(1) This section applies to the publisher of a journal—

(a) who publishes an advertisement relating to an election—

(i) with the authority of a participant in the election; and

(ii) during the capped expenditure period for the election; and

(b) even if the publisher is outside Queensland when the advertisement is published.

(2) The publisher must, within 8 weeks after the polling day for the election, give the commission a return, in an approved form, stating particulars of the advertisement, being particulars—

(a) identifying the journal in which the advertisement was published; and

(b) identifying the person at whose request the advertisement was published; and

(c) identifying the participant in the election with whose authority the advertisement was published; and

(d) stating the date on which the advertisement was published; and

(e) identifying the page in the journal on which the advertisement was published and the space in the journal occupied by the advertisement; and

(f) showing whether or not a charge was made by the publisher for the publication of the advertisement and, if a charge was made, stating the amount of the charge.

(3) If, in a return under subsection (2) , the amount of a charge is specified by a publisher in relation to an advertisement, the publisher must, in the return, state whether or not the charge was a charge at less than normal commercial rates having regard to the space in the journal occupied by the advertisement and the nature of the journal.

(4) A publisher is not required to give a return under subsection (2) in relation to an election if the total amount of the charge made by the publisher for the publication of the advertisement referred to in the subsection and any other advertisement relating to an election that took place on the same day as the first-mentioned election does not exceed $1,000.

(5) In this section—

"journal" means a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, whether published for sale or for distribution without charge.