Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345:section:72:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00345
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 72 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 156584–159171

72  Offences in relation to ballot

Interference with ballot papers
 (1) A person commits an offence in relation to a ballot if the person:
 (a) impersonates another person with the intention of:
 (i) securing a ballot paper to which the impersonator is not entitled; or
 (ii) casting a vote; or
 (b) does an act that results in a ballot paper or envelope being destroyed, defaced, altered, taken or otherwise interfered with; or
 (c) fraudulently puts a ballot paper or other paper:
 (i) into a ballot box or other ballot receptacle; or
 (ii) into the post; or
 (d) delivers a ballot paper or other paper to a person other than a person receiving ballot papers for the purposes of the ballot; or
 (e) records a vote that the person is not entitled to record; or
 (f) records more than one vote; or
 (g) forges a ballot paper or envelope, or utters a ballot paper or envelope that the person knows to be forged; or
 (h) provides a ballot paper without authority; or
 (i) obtains a ballot paper which the person is not entitled to obtain; or
 (j) has possession of a ballot paper which the person is not entitled to possess; or
 (k) does an act that results in a ballot box or other ballot receptacle being destroyed, taken, opened or otherwise interfered with.
Penalty: 30 penalty units.

Hindering the ballot, threats and bribes etc.
 (2) A person commits an offence in relation to a ballot if the person:
 (a) hinders or obstructs the taking of the ballot; or
 (b) uses any form of intimidation or inducement to prevent from voting, or to influence the vote of, a person entitled to vote at the ballot; or
 (c) threatens, offers or suggests, or uses, causes or inflicts, any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage with the intention of influencing or affecting:
 (i) any vote or omission to vote; or
 (ii) any support of, or opposition to, voting in a particular manner; or
 (iii) any promise of any vote, omission, support or opposition; or
 (d) gives, or promises or offers to give, any property or benefit of any kind with the intention of influencing or affecting anything referred to in subparagraph (c)(i), (ii) or (iii); or
 (e) asks for or obtains, or offers or agrees to ask for or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind (whether for that person or another person), on the understanding that anything referred to in subparagraph (c)(i), (ii) or (iii) will be influenced or affected in any way; or
 (f) counsels or advises a person entitled to vote to refrain from voting.
Penalty: 30 penalty units.

Secrecy of vote
 (3) A person (the relevant person)