Section 97Part 9 — Election Offences
Definition of undue influence
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97. Every person who, directly or indirectly, by themselves or by any other person on that person’s behalf, makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict, by themselves or by any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or who by abduction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance, impedes or prevents the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or thereby compels, induces or prevails upon any elector, either to give or refrain from giving that person’s vote at any election, shall have committed the offence of undue influence under this Act.