Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person must not during the hours of voting within 400 metres of the entrance of, or within the building used as, a voting centre—
(a) hand out, distribute or otherwise make available; or
(b) authorise the handing out, distribution or otherwise making available—
to any person of any printed electoral material that the person knows, or should reasonably be expected to know, is not a registered how-to-vote card.
Penalty: 60 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to—
(a) the handing out, distribution, sale or otherwise making available of a newspaper by or on behalf of a newsagent, newspaper seller or distributor if the handing out, distribution, sale or making available is in the course of the newsagent's, newspaper seller's or distributor's employment or business; or
(b) the handing out, distribution or otherwise making available of any printed electoral material in any room or building used as a campaign room or an office by a candidate in the election to which the material relates; or
(c) printed electoral material in the form of any poster or notice which is affixed or attached to any vehicle, building, hoarding or structure (whether moveable or fixed); or
(d) the distribution or otherwise making available of any printed electoral material during the hours of voting to any property within 400 metres of the entrance of a voting centre that is an early voting centre.