Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 127

127. (1) Every paper which by this Act or the regulations has to be signed by
any person shall be signed by that person with his personal signature.

(2) Where a person who is unable to sign his name in writing makes his mark as
his signature to a referendum paper, the mark shall be deemed to be his
personal signature, if it is identifiable as such, and is made in the presence
of a witness who signs the referendum paper as such witness.

(3) Nothing in this section shall authorize any person to sign any
referendum paper by a mark or otherwise than in his own handwriting in cases
where the Act or the regulations require him to sign the referendum paper in
his own handwriting.

(4) A person shall not make the signature of any other person on a
referendum paper.

Penalty: $1,000.

(5) Sub-section (4) does not affect the liability of any person to be
proceeded against for forgery, but a person is not liable to be punished twice
in respect of the same offence.
(6) In this section, ''referendum paper'' includes a prescribed form and an
approved form.