Section 103Part 9 — Election Offences
Offences in respect of ballot papers
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103. (1) A person who —
forges or counterfeits, or fraudulently defaces or destroys, any ballot paper;
without due authority supplies a ballot paper to any person;
fraudulently puts into any ballot box any paper other than the ballot paper which that person is authorised by law to put in;
fraudulently takes out of the polling station any ballot paper;
without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of any election; or
not being duly registered as an elector, votes at any election, Section 104 Elections Act (2022 Revision) Page 66 Revised as at 31st December, 2021 c commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction before a magistrate to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
In any information or prosecution for an offence in relation to the ballot boxes, ballot papers and other things in use at an election, the property in such ballot boxes, ballot papers or things may be stated to be in the returning officer at such election.