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14 Government campaigns before election restricted 

(1) A government agency must not conduct a government campaign in the pre-election period.

(2) This section does not apply to the electoral commissioner.

Note 1 A government campaign does not include advertisements for stated jobs, tender advertising or other routine advertising carried out by an agency in relation to its operational activities (see s 8, def government campaign).

Note 2 Also, the Minister may exempt a campaign from this Act in an emergency, urgent circumstances or other extraordinary circumstances (see s 15).

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Part 3A Reporting 

14A Reviewer to prepare report 

(1) The reviewer must prepare a report for the Legislative Assembly about government campaigns for the following periods (the report periods):

(a) for a year in which a general election is held—

(i) the 6-month period ending on 30 June in the year; and

(ii) the period beginning on 1 July in the year and ending at the start of the pre-election period; and

(b) for any other year—the 6-month periods ending on 30 June and 31 December in the year.

(2) The reviewer must report on the following:

(a) each proposed government campaign (a proposed campaign) referred to the reviewer in the report period;

(b) for each proposed campaign—

(i) the campaign costs itemised by the kind of costs incurred and the ways used to disseminate information for the campaign; and

(ii) the result of the reviewer’s review and the reasons for the reviewer’s decision.

(3) The reviewer must give the report to the Legislative Assembly not later than—

(a) for a report mentioned in subsection (1) (a) (ii)—2 weeks before the election; and

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