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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 08 Hansard (Tuesday, 3 August 2004) . . Page.. 3383 ..

a public notice issued by the Territory, a Territory authority or Territory instrumentality;

(a) a document deposited under the authority of a Commonweajlth or Territory law;

(b) a document from a charitable organisation or incorporated community association;

(c) matter that is electoral matter under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cwlth), section 4, or the Electoral Act 1992, section 4;

(d) a document from a member of the Commonwealth Parliament or the Legislative Assembly;

(e) anything else prescribed under the regulations.

Examples for par (a)

1 notices about the holding of public consultations

2 police notices

3 notices about disruptions to public services

(4) In this section:

charitable organisation means an entity carried on for a religious, educational, benevolent or charitable purpose, but does not include an entity carried on for the purpose of securing financial benefits to its members.

Note Legislative Assembly, Territory authority and Territory instrumentality are defined in the Legislation Act, dict, pt 1.

13C Removing  etc signs about unsolicited advertising material

(1) A person commits an offence if—

(a) at any premises, there is, on or near a letterbox, a sign to the effect that unsolicited advertising material is not to be deposited in the letterbox; and

(b) the person removes, changes or interferes with the sign.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to anything done by or with the permission of an owner or occupier of the premises.

13D Obligations  relating to commissioning or distributing unsolicited advertising material

(1) A person commits an offence if—

(a) the person is concerned with the distribution of advertising material; and

(b) the material is deposited at premises in contravention of section 13A (Depositing unsolicited advertising material other than in letterbox) or section 13B (Depositing unsolicited advertising material in letterbox contrary to sign).

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