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Offence of personation.

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(c) fraudulently puts into a ballot box any

paper other than the ballot paper which he

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is authorized by law to put in; or

(d) fraudulently takes out of the polling station

any ballot paper; or

(e) without due authority destroys, takes, opens

or otherwise interferes with any ballot box ar

packet of ballot papers then in use for the

purposes of an election; or

(f) fraudulently or without due authority, as the

case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing

acts;

he shall

(1) if he is a returning officer, or an officer

appointed to assist in taking the poll or

counting the votes, be liable, on conviction on

indictment, to imprisonment for a term not

exceeding two years; and

(ii) in any other case be liable, on conviction on

indictment or on summary conviction, to

imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months,

or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars,

or to both such imprisonment and fine.

(1) If any personı

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(a)

applies for a ballot paper in the name of some

other person, whether that name be that of a

person living or dead or of a fictitious person; or

(b)

having voted once at an election applies at the

same election for a ballot paper in his own name;

he shall be guilty of the offence of personation, and shall

be liable

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(i) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for

a term not exceeding two years; or

(ii) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a

term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not

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