Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not enter or remain in a voting centreor scrutiny centre except with the permission, express or implied, of the officer in charge of the place or centre.
Maximum penalty: 400 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) An offence against subsection (1) is a regulatory offence.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to:
(a) an officer; or
(b) a scrutineer unless the scrutineer is, under section 47(5), no longer entitled to be at the voting centre or scrutiny centre; or
(c) for a voting centre – a person voting or about to vote.
(4) A person must not disrupt an activity being carried out under this Act at a voting centre or scrutiny centre.
Maximum penalty: 400 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
(5) If an authorised officer at a voting centre or scrutiny centre reasonably believes a person's conduct is likely to disrupt an activity being carried out under this Act at the place or centre, the officer may direct the person to leave and stay away from the place or centre.
(6) The person must not, without reasonable excuse, disobey the direction.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(7) A person who does not comply with the direction may be removed from the place by a police officer.
(8) A scrutineer must not, without reasonable excuse, communicate with any person in a voting centre other than in the exercise of the scrutineer's functions.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(9) A scrutineer must not, without reasonable excuse, interfere with or attempt to influence a voter at a voting centre.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.