FOREIGN INFLUENCE TRANSPARENCY SCHEME ACT 2018 - SECT 38 Disclosure in communications activity

FOREIGN INFLUENCE TRANSPARENCY SCHEME ACT 2018 - SECT 38

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a person is registered under the scheme in relation to a foreign principal; and

                     (b)  the person undertakes communications activity on behalf of the foreign principal; and

                     (c)  the communications activity is registrable in relation to the foreign principal within the meaning of section 21 (activity in Australia for the purpose of political or governmental influence);

the person must make a disclosure about the foreign principal in accordance with rules made for the purposes of subsection (2).

Note:          It is an offence for a registrant not to make the disclosure (see subsection 58(2)).

             (2)  The rules may prescribe any or all of the following:

                     (a)  instances of communications activity;

                     (b)  when and how disclosures are to be made in relation to instances of communications activity;

                     (c)  the content, form and manner of disclosures;

                     (d)  circumstances in which a person is exempt from making a disclosure.