Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 1983 No. 144 of 1983 - SECT 122

122. Section 170 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Other offences relating to ballot-papers, &c.

''170. (1) A person shall not-

   (a)  personate any person for the purpose of securing a ballot-paper to
        which the personator is not entitled;

   (b)  personate any person for the purpose of voting;

   (c)  fraudulently destroy or deface any nomination paper or ballot-paper;

   (d)  fraudulently put any ballot-paper or other paper into the ballot-box;

   (e)  fraudulently take any ballot-paper out of any polling booth or
        counting centre;

   (f)  forge any nomination paper or ballot-paper or utter any nomination
        paper or ballot-paper knowing it to be forged;

   (g)  supply ballot-papers without authority;

   (h)  unlawfully destroy, take, open or otherwise interfere with
        ballot-boxes or ballot-papers;

   (j)  wilfully vote more than once at the same election; or

   (k)  make a statement in any claim, application, return or declaration, or
        in an answer to a question, under this Act (other than Part XVI) or
        the regulations that, to his knowledge, is false or misleading in a
        material respect.

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

''(2) A person shall not wilfully deface, mutilate, destroy or remove any
notice, list or other document affixed by any Divisional Returning Officer or
by his authority.

Penalty for contravention of this sub-section: $500.''.