REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 127 Signature to referendum paper
REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 - SECT 127
Signature to referendum paper(1) Every referendum paper which by this Act or the regulations has to be signed by any person shall be signed by that person in his or her own handwriting.
(2) Where a person who is unable to sign his or her name in writing makes a mark as his or her signature to a referendum paper, the mark shall be deemed to be his or her personal signature, if it is identifiable as such, and is made in the presence of a witness who signs the referendum paper as such witness.
(3) Nothing in this section shall authorize any person to sign any referendum paper by a mark or otherwise than in his or her own handwriting in cases where the Act or the regulations require that the referendum paper be signed in the person's own handwriting.
(4) A person shall not make the signature of any other person on a referendum paper.
(5) Subsection (4) does not affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against for forgery, but a person is not liable to be punished twice in respect of the same offence.
(6) In this section, referendum paper includes a prescribed form
and an approved form.