Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not:
(a) sign as witness any blank electoral paper; or
(b) sign as witness any electoral paper which has been wholly or partly filled up unless it has been signed by the person intended to sign it; or
(c) sign as witness any electoral paper unless he or she has seen the person, whose signature he or she purports to witness, sign it; or
(d) write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:
(i) the name of another person; or
(ii) any name not being his or her own name.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
(2) In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or approved form or in a form in Schedule 1.
Note 1: The Criminal Code Act 1995 contains defences for offences involving mistake or ignorance.
Note 2: An approved form and signature may be electronic (see paragraph (b) of the definition of approved form in subsection 4(1) and section 10 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 ).