Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279:clause:1_140:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L01279
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 140 (pt 3/9)
Character Range: 139902–142701

be deemed to be his or her personal signature, if it is identifiable as such, and is made in the presence of a witness who signs the electoral paper as such witness.

       (3) Nothing in this rule authorises any person to sign any electoral paper by a mark or otherwise than in his or her own handwriting in cases where these Rules require him or her to sign the electoral paper in his or her own handwriting.

       (4) A person must not make the signature of any other person on an electoral paper.

            Penalty:   10 penalty units.

       (5) Subrule (4) does not affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against for forgery, but so that he or she is not to be liable to be punished twice in respect of the same offence.

       (6)  In this rule, electoral paper includes an approved form.

      146  Witnessing electoral papers

       (1) A person must not:
          (a) sign his or her name as witness on any blank electoral paper; or
          (b) sign his or her name as witness on any electoral paper which has been wholly or partly filled up unless it has been signed by the person intended to sign it; or
          (c) sign his or her name as witness on any electoral paper unless he or she has seen the person, whose signature he or she purports to witness, sign it; or
          (d) write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:
             (i) the name of another person; or
             (ii) any name not being his or her own name.

            Penalty:   10 penalty units.

       (2) In this rule, electoral paper includes any approved form.

      147  False certification

       (1) A person who:
          (a) certifies that a person is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander; and
          (b) knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the certification is false;
      commits an offence.

            Penalty:   10 penalty units.

       (2) A person must not engage in conduct with the intention of inducing or attempting to induce another person to make a false certification that a voter is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander.

            Penalty:   10 penalty units.

      148  Unlawfully marking ballot‑papers

        Except where expressly authorised by these Rules, a person (other than the voter to whom the ballot‑paper has been lawfully issued) must not mark his or her vote or make any mark or writing on the ballot‑paper of any voter.

            Penalty:   10 penalty units.

      149 Other offences relating to ballot‑papers etc

       (1) A person must not:
          (a) personate anyone with the intention of obtaining a ballot‑paper to which the personator is not entitled; or
          (b) personate anyone with the intention of voting; or
          (c) fraudulently engage in conduct that