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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) ACT 1997 No. 128 of 1997 - SECT 129

129 Witnessing electoral papers

(1) A person must not:

   (a)  sign as witness any blank electoral paper; or

   (b)  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

   (c)  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

   (d)  write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:

        (i)    the name of another person; or

        (ii)   any name not being his or her own name. Penalty: 10 penalty
               units.

(2) In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or
*approved form. 


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