AVOIDANCE OF DISCRIMINATION ACT - 1957 (NO. 38 OF 1957)

Section - 8 - Power of Commission to require disclosure of rules

(1) The Electoral Commission may require an organisation which, in the opinion of the Commission, engages in politics within the meaning of subsection (3) of section 5 to disclose its rules to the Commission and whether or not it permits or allows the use of a particular name or symbol.

(2) Where the rules of an organisation are discriminatory as to membership by reason only of community or religion the Commissioner may,and in addition to any other power conferred under this Act, give notice to the organisation requiring amendment to its rules.

(3)An organisation which fails to comply with the requirements of the Commission within seven days after notice given under this section, is liable to a penalty of one hundred penalty units for every day that the failure continues, and the penalty may be recovered in a summary way in a court from the person who appears to have the control or management of the organisation.