LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.92

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.92

4.92 .         Postal votes, offences relating to

                A candidate in an election, or a person expressly authorised to act on behalf of a candidate in connection with an election, who, in relation to the election —

            (a)         applies undue influence or pressure on an elector to apply for a postal vote; or

            (b)         interferes with an elector while the elector is applying for a postal vote; or

            (c)         takes custody of an envelope in which there is a postal vote; or

            (d)         causes any other person, not being the elector whose vote is in the envelope, to do anything referred to in paragraph (c),

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for one year.