Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) ACT 1997 No. 128 of 1997 - SECT 139

(1) A person must not ask for, receive or obtain, or offer or agree to ask
for, or receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind, whether for
the same or any other person, on an understanding that:

   (a)  any vote of the first-mentioned person; or

   (b)  any candidature of the first-mentioned person; or

   (c)  any support of, or opposition to, a candidate or a *group of
        candidates by the first-mentioned person; or

   (d)  the doing of any act or thing by the first-mentioned person the
        purpose of which is, or the effect of which is likely to be, to
        influence the preference set out in the vote of an *elector; or

   (e)  the order in which the names of candidates whose names are included in
        a group in accordance with a request under section 29 appear on a
        *list of candidates; will, in any manner, be influenced or affected.
        Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(2) A person must not, in order to influence or affect:

   (a)  any vote of another person; or

   (b)  any candidature of another person; or

   (c)  any support of, or opposition to, a candidate, or a *group of
        candidates by another person; or

   (d)  the order in which the names of candidates whose names are included in
        a group in accordance with a request under section 29 appear on a
        *list of candidates; give or confer, or promise or offer to give or
        confer, any property or benefit of any kind to that other person or to
        a third person. Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(3) This section does not apply in relation to a declaration of public policy
or a promise of public action.