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Section 163: Offences relating to voting – penalties and disqualification

163.Offences relating to voting

(1)Any person who—

(a)forges or alters any document or delivers to the returning officer any document, knowing it to be forged;

(b)fraudulently defaces or destroys any document relating to the holding of an election under this Act;

(c)forges, counterfeits or destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper;

(d)without authority, supplies any ballot papers to any person;

(e)without authority, sells or offers for sale, any document relating to the holding of an election under this Act to any person, or purchases or offers to purchase any such document from any person;

(f)not being a person entitled under this Act to be in possession of a document relating to the holding of an election, has that document in his or her possession;

(g)knowingly and intentionally puts into a ballot box anything other than a ballot paper;

(h)without authority, takes out of a polling station any ballot paper or other official document relating to an election or is found in possession of any ballot paper or such document outside a polling station;

(i)without due authority, destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box, ballot documents or any other property in use or intended to be used for the purpose of an election;

(j)without due authority, prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

(k)not being authorised under this Act, makes any mark on a ballot paper issued to a person, other than the person making the mark, with intent that the ballot paper be used to record the vote of that other person,

commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both.

(2)A person committing an offence under subsection (1)(h) shall, in addition to the punishment provided in that subsection, be disqualified from standing or participating in an election for a period of not less than five years.

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You must not forge or alter any election document, or deliver a forged document to the returning officer. It is illegal to fraudulently deface or dest...

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