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ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 314 Electoral papers—signatures

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 314

Electoral papers—signatures

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), if a person is required by this Act to sign an electoral paper, the person must sign it with their personal signature.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (2)     If a person is unable to sign the person's name in writing, the person is to be taken to have signed an electoral paper if—

        (a)     the person makes a mark on the paper by way of signature; or

        (b)     another person signs the document in the presence of and at the direction of the person.