70. Section 69 does not prohibit(1) the publication in a newspaper or other periodical of editorials, news, columns or letters to the editor, provided that such publication is made without payment or reward or promise of payment or reward, that the newspaper or other periodical was not established for the purposes of the vote provided for by this Act or with a view to the vote and that its circulation and frequency of publication are established outside the period contemplated in section 69;
(2) the broadcasting by a radio or television station of news or news commentary, provided that the program is prepared and presented in the same manner and according to the same rules as outside the period contemplated in section 69, without payment or reward or promise of payment or reward;
(3) the publication or broadcasting of the calling of an information meeting dealing with an option contemplated in section 2.
This section has effect from 30 March 1982.