Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 130

130. (1) A person shall not-

   (a)  impersonate another person for the purpose of voting or for the
        purpose of securing a ballot-paper to which the first-mentioned person
        is not entitled;

   (b)  fraudulently destroy or deface a ballot-paper or other document
        relating to a referendum;

   (c)  fraudulently put any ballot-paper or other paper into a ballot-box;

   (d)  fraudulently take any ballot-paper out of a polling booth or a place
        where the scrutiny is being conducted;

   (e)  forge a ballot-paper or any other document required to be filled in
        under this Act or the regulations or utter a ballot-paper or such a
        document knowing it to be forged;

   (f)  supply ballot-papers unless he is authorized to do so under this Act
        or the regulations;

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

   (h)  wilfully vote more than once at the same referendum; or

   (j)  make a statement, or induce another person to make a statement, in any
        claim, application, return or declaration, or in an answer to a
        question, under this Act 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 documents displayed in any place by, or with the
authority of, an officer.

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