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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 323A

Officers and scrutineers not to divulge or communicate Senate election results before close of adjourned polling

    A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is an officer or a scrutineer; and

  (b)   the polling is adjourned at a polling place in a Division under section   241 or 242; and

  (c)   the person divulges or communicates the results of the Senate election for a polling place in the Division to the public or a section of the public; and

  (d)   the person does so before the closing of the poll for the polling place mentioned in paragraph   (b).

Penalty:   10 penalty units.


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