E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 624 Disposition versions

2009-06-01

624. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every printer, manufacturer, owner of a newspaper or other publication, radio or television broadcaster or other person using another medium or information technology who manufactures, prints or disseminates any advertising copy, object or material, advertisement or publicity relating to an election that does not contain the information required under section 463 or 463.1;

(2)  every official agent, deputy official agent, private intervenor or representative of a private intervenor who allows the information required under section 463 or 463.1 to be omitted from any advertising copy, object or material, advertisement or publicity relating to an election.

1987, c. 57, s. 624; 1998, c. 52, s. 103; 2002, c. 37, s. 209; 2009, c. 11, s. 78.

2002-06-14

624. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every printer or manufacturer who fails to mention, on any advertising copy, object or material he knows to be related to an election, his name and the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be printed or manufactured;

(2)  every owner of a newspaper or other publication who allows the publication therein of an advertisement he knows to be related to an election that does not include the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be published and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting;

(3)  every radio or television broadcaster who allows any advertisement he knows to be related to an election to be broadcast without mention being made at the beginning or at the end of the advertisement, of the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be broadcast and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting;

(4)  every person who broadcasts or causes to be broadcast any advertisement he knows to be related to an election and that is produced using any medium or information technology other than those referred to in subparagraphs 1 to 3, without mention being made at the beginning or at the end of the advertisement of the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be broadcast and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting.

For the purposes of this section, the expression “official agent” includes a private intervenor within the meaning of Division VIII.1 of Chapter XIII of Title I, if the private intervenor is an elector, and the representative of such an intervenor if the private intervenor is a group of electors.

1987, c. 57, s. 624; 1998, c. 52, s. 103; 2002, c. 37, s. 209.

1998-10-21

624. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every printer or manufacturer who fails to mention, on any advertising copy, object or material he knows to be related to an election, his name and the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be printed or manufactured;

(2)  every owner of a newspaper or other publication who allows the publication therein of an advertisement he knows to be related to an election that does not include the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be published and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting;

(3)  every radio or television broadcaster who allows any advertisement he knows to be related to an election to be broadcast without mention being made at the beginning or at the end of the advertisement, of the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be broadcast and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting.

For the purposes of this section, the expression “official agent” includes a private intervenor within the meaning of Division VIII.1 of Chapter XIII of Title I, if the private intervenor is an elector, and the representative of such an intervenor if the private intervenor is a group of electors.

1987, c. 57, s. 624; 1998, c. 52, s. 103.

1988-01-01

624. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every printer or manufacturer who fails to mention, on any advertising copy, object or material he knows to be related to an election, his name and the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be printed or manufactured;

(2)  every owner of a newspaper or other publication who allows the publication therein of an advertisement he knows to be related to an election that does not include the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be published and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting;

(3)  every radio or television broadcaster who allows any advertisement he knows to be related to an election to be broadcast without mention being made at the beginning or at the end of the advertisement, of the name and title of the official agent or deputy who caused it to be broadcast and the name of the party or independent candidate in whose behalf he is acting.

1987, c. 57, s. 624.