Interfering with secrecy at elections
113 Interfering with secrecy at elections
This section applies to an election at which voting is by ballot.
A person who unfolds a ballot paper that has been marked and folded by an elector at the election commits a misdemeanour.Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
An officer who ascertains or discovers, or attempts to ascertain or discover, how an elector has voted at the election commits a misdemeanour.Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
An officer who discloses any information about how an elector has voted at the election commits a misdemeanour.Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
An officer who places a mark or writing on an elector’s ballot paper commits a misdemeanour.Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.
A person does not commit an offence against this section only by doing something the person is ordered by a court or authorised under the authorising Act to do.
Also this section does not apply to a police officer doing a thing in the course of performing a duty of a police officer.
In this section—officer, in relation to an election, means a person performing duties at the election under the authorising Act. sch 1 pt 3 ch 14 ch div 3 s 113 amd 1988 No. 88 s 5 sch 2
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