Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 683

683 Offences about ballots

A person must not, without lawful authority or excuse, do any of the following about a ballot for an election—

(a) obtain or possess a ballot paper if the person does not have the right to obtain or possess it;

(b) pretend to be and vote as someone else;

(c) amend, deface, destroy, interfere with, or remove a ballot record for the election;

(d) vote in the ballot if the person does not have the right to vote;

(e) vote more than once;

(f) forge a ballot record for the election;

(g) utter a ballot record for the election knowing the record to be forged;

(h) give a ballot record for the election to someone else;

(i) put a ballot record for the election in a ballot box or other container used for the ballot (also a
"ballot box" ) if the person does not have the right to vote;

(j) deliver or post a ballot record for the election to another person performing functions for the ballot if the person does not have the right to deliver or post the record;

(k) destroy, interfere with, open, or remove a ballot box.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—80 penalty units.