ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 129

ELECTORAL ACT 1985 - SECT 129

129—Protection of the official mark

        (1)         A person must not, without lawful authority—

            (a)         make any mark purporting to be an official mark on or in any paper; or

            (b)         have in his or her possession any paper bearing any official mark; or

            (c)         make use of or have in his or her possession any instrument capable of making on or in any paper an official mark.

Maximum penalty: $1 250.

        (2)         A person who, without lawful authority, makes on or in any ballot paper, or on or in any paper purporting to be a ballot paper, an official mark, will be taken to have forged a ballot paper, and will be punishable accordingly.

        (3)         All paper bearing an official mark, and all instruments capable of making on or in paper an official mark, made, used, or in the possession of any person without lawful authority will be forfeited to the Crown and may without warrant be seized by a member of the police force and destroyed or dealt with as prescribed.

        (4)         In this section—

"official mark" means any prescribed mark to be placed or made on or in any electoral paper, and includes any mark so nearly resembling an official mark as to be likely to deceive.