Magnetic ballast is frequency sensitive, so does not work correctly on other frequency than it is designed for. It does not mean it will necessarily damage something, but at least it will not work correctly, so e.g. underpower the lamp, flicker, ignitor interfering with the lamp when it should not and so on.
On the other hand the electronic ballasts need DC supply, so they first rectify and filter the input mains. And this work independently on the frequency, provided the filter is still able to sufficiently filter out the ripple. As all these filters are just low pass type, the only problem may arise, when the frequency become lower than designed for. So that mean a ballast designed for 50Hz operation, will work well on the same voltage at 60Hz, but another ballast designed for 50Hz may have problems at 50Hz.
So when you want to operate some lamp at 240V/60Hz, but the available ballasts are 240V/50Hz only, only the electronic ones will not have any problems, so you may use them.
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