Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:462:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 462 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1089702–1092261

462  Interferences etc. with protected action ballot

General
 (1) A person (the first person) must not do any of the following in relation to a protected action ballot:
 (a) hinder or obstruct the holding of the ballot;
 (b) use any form of intimidation to prevent a person entitled to vote in the ballot from voting, or to influence the vote of such a person;
 (c) threaten, offer or suggest, or use, cause or inflict, any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage because of, or to induce:
 (i) any vote or omission to vote; or
 (ii) any support of, or opposition to, voting in a particular manner;
 (d) offer an advantage (whether financial or otherwise) to a person entitled to vote in the ballot because of or to induce:
 (i) any vote or omission to vote; or
 (ii) any support of, or opposition to, voting in a particular manner;
 (e) counsel or advise a person entitled to vote to refrain from voting;
 (f) impersonate another person to obtain a ballot paper to which the first person is not entitled, or impersonate another person for the purpose of voting;
 (g) do an act that results in a ballot paper or envelope being destroyed, defaced, altered, taken or otherwise interfered with;
 (h) fraudulently put a paper ballot paper or other paper:
 (i) into a repository that serves to receive or hold paper ballot papers; or
 (ii) into the post;
 (ha) fraudulently deliver or send an electronic ballot paper or other document to a repository that serves to receive or hold electronic ballot papers;
 (i) fraudulently deliver or send a ballot paper or other paper to a person receiving ballot papers for the purposes of the ballot;
 (j) record a vote that the first person is not entitled to record;
 (k) record more than one vote;
 (l) forge a ballot paper or envelope, or utter a ballot paper or envelope that the first person knows to be forged;
 (m) provide a ballot paper without authority;
 (n) obtain or have possession of a ballot paper to which the first person is not entitled;
 (o) request, require or induce another person:
 (i) to show a ballot paper to the first person; or
 (ii) to permit the first person to see a ballot paper in such a manner that the first person can see the vote;
  while the vote is being made, or after the vote has been made, on the ballot paper;
 (p) do an act that results in a repository that serves to receive or hold ballot papers being destroyed, taken, opened or otherwise interfered with.
Note: This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).

Meaning of utter
 (2) A person is