New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 176C

176C Signature to electoral paper

(1) Every electoral paper which by this Act or any regulations made thereunder has to be signed by any person shall be signed by that person with his or her personal signature.

(2) Where a person who is unable to sign his or her name in writing makes his or her mark as his or her signature to an electoral 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 electoral paper as such witness.

(3) Nothing in this section shall authorise any person to sign any electoral paper by a mark or otherwise than in his or her own handwriting in cases where this Act or the regulations require him or her to sign the electoral paper in his or her own handwriting.

(4) A person shall not make the signature of any other person on an electoral paper.

(5) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(6) Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against for forgery, but so that he or she shall not be liable to be punished more than once in respect of the same offence.