New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 176D

176D Untrue statements in forms

(1) Any person who knowingly makes any untrue statement in any electoral paper, or in any information supplied to any officer for the purposes of the preparation, maintenance, or revision of rolls, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months, or both.

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