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ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 302 Disruption of election meetings

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 302

Disruption of election meetings

    (1)     A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, disrupt an election meeting.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

    (2)     The chairperson of an election meeting may request a police officer to remove from the meeting any person who, in the opinion of the chairperson, is disrupting the meeting.

    (3)     On a request from the chairperson under subsection (2), a police officer may take reasonable action to remove from the meeting the person disrupting the meeting.

    (4)     A person who is the subject of a request referred to in subsection (2) shall not, without reasonable excuse, return to the meeting without the authority of the chairperson after leaving it or being removed from it.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (5)     In this section:

"election meeting" means a lawful public meeting held during a

pre-election period in association with the relevant election.