Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who--
(a) asks for or receives; or
(b) offers, or agrees, to ask for or receive;
a benefit, whether for the person or for another person, on the understanding that the person's election conduct will be influenced or affected commits a misdemeanour.
Maximum penalty--1 year's imprisonment.
(2) A person who, in order to influence or affect the election conduct of another person (the affected person), gives a benefit to any person (whether or not the affected person) commits a misdemeanour.
Maximum penalty--1 year's imprisonment.
(3) In this section--
election conduct of a person means--
(a) the person's voting or not voting at an election; or
(b) the way in which the person votes at an election; or
(c) the person's nominating as a candidate for an election; or
(d) the person's support of, or opposition to, a candidate at an election.
give includes promise and offer to give.