Witnessing electoral papers
337 Witnessing electoral papers
A person shall not:
sign as witness any blank electoral paper; or
sign as witness any electoral paper which has been wholly or partly filled up unless it has been signed by the person intended to sign it; or
sign as witness any electoral paper unless he or she has seen the person, whose signature he or she purports to witness, sign it; or
write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:
the name of another person; or
any name not being his or her own name.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or approved form or in a form in Schedule 1.
The Criminal Code Act 1995 contains defences for offences involving mistake or ignorance.
An approved form and signature may be electronic (see paragraph (b) of the definition of approved form in subsection 4(1) and section 10 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999).
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