Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.94

4.94 .         Other electoral offences

                A person who —

            (a)         when in a polling place on a day on which polling is taking place, misconducts himself or herself or fails to obey the reasonable instructions of an electoral officer; or

            (b)         re-enters a polling place without permission after being removed from the polling place under section 4.70; or

            (c)         not being a candidate in an election, canvasses at the election while he or she is an employee of the local government in question; or

            (d)         wilfully defaces, mutilates, destroys or removes a notice, list or other document which an electoral officer, acting within the scope of his or her authority, has exhibited or caused to be exhibited; or

            (e)         bets on the result of an election,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.