New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 209

209 Electoral bribery, treating and selling of votes

(1) A person must not, in order to influence or affect any person's election conduct, give or confer, or promise or offer to give or confer, any property or any other benefit of any kind to the person or any other person.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 years, or both.

(2) A person must not--

(a) ask for, receive or obtain, or

(b) offer to ask for, receive or obtain, or

(c) agree to ask for, receive or obtain,

any property or any other benefit of any kind, whether for the person or any other person, on an understanding that the person's election conduct will be in any manner influenced or affected.

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 years, or both.

(3) In this section,
"person's election conduct" means--

(a) the way in which the person votes at an election, or

(b) the person's nomination as a candidate for an election, or

(c) the person's support of, or opposition to, a candidate or a political party at an election, or

(d) the doing of any act or thing by the person the purpose of which is, or the effect of which is likely to be, to influence the preferences set out in the vote of an elector.

(4) This section does not apply in relation to a declaration of public policy or a promise of public action.

(5) An offence under this section is an indictable offence.