Western Australian Current Acts

REFERENDUMS ACT 1983 - SECT 45

45 .         Purposely rendering person unable to vote or incapable of voting

        (1)         A person who does any act or engages in any course of conduct intending that as a result thereof another person —

            (a)         will be rendered; or

            (b)         will be encouraged or assisted to render himself,

                unable to vote or mentally incapable of voting at a referendum shall be guilty of an offence.

        Penalty: $200.

        (2)         Subject to proof of the other elements of the offence, a person is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) notwithstanding that —

            (a)         the other person was not rendered or did not render himself unable or incapable as mentioned therein; or

            (b)         the other person did vote.

        [Section 45 amended: No. 50 of 2003 s. 89(2).]