Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who wilfully opens or breaks the seal of a parcel sealed under the authorising Act for an election commits a misdemeanour.
Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.
(2) A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) only by doing something the person is ordered by a court or authorised under the authorising Act to do.
(3) Also subsection (1) does not apply to a police officer doing a thing in the course of performing a duty of a police officer.