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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 337

Witnessing electoral papers

  (1)   A person shall not:

  (a)   sign as witness any blank electoral paper; or

  (b)   sign as witness any electoral paper which has been wholly or partly filled up unless it has been signed by the person intended to sign it; or

  (c)   sign as witness any electoral paper unless he or she has seen the person, whose signature he or she purports to witness, sign it; or

  (d)   write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:

  (i)   the name of another person; or

  (ii)   any name not being his or her own name.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months.

  (2)   In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or approved form or in a form in Schedule   1.

Note 1:   The Criminal Code Act 1995 contains defences for offences involving mistake or ignorance.

Note 2:   An approved form and signature may be electronic (see paragraph   (b) of the definition of approved form in subsection   4(1) and section   10 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 ).


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