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(1) A person (the first person ) must not do any of the following in relation to a protected action ballot:
(a) hinder or obstruct the holding of the ballot;
(b) use any form of intimidation to prevent a person entitled to vote in the ballot from voting, or to influence the vote of such a person;
(c) threaten, offer or suggest, or use, cause or inflict, any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage because of, or to induce:
(i) any vote or omission to vote; or
(ii) any support of, or opposition to, voting in a particular manner;
(d) offer an advantage (whether financial or otherwise) to a person entitled to vote in the ballot because of or to induce:
(i) any vote or omission to vote; or
(ii) any support of, or opposition to, voting in a particular manner;
(e) counsel or advise a person entitled to vote to refrain from voting;
(f) impersonate another person to obtain a ballot paper to which the first person is not entitled, or impersonate another person for the purpose of voting;
(g) do an act that results in a ballot paper or envelope being destroyed, defaced, altered, taken or otherwise interfered with;
(h) fraudulently put a ballot paper or other paper:
(i) into a ballot box or other ballot receptacle; or
(ii) into the post;
(i) fraudulently deliver a ballot paper or other paper to a person receiving ballot papers for the purposes of the ballot;
(j) record a vote that the first person is not entitled to record;
(k) record more than one vote;
(l) forge a ballot paper or envelope, or utter a ballot paper or envelope that the first person knows to be forged;
(m) provide a ballot paper without authority;
(n) obtain or have possession of a ballot paper to which the first person is not entitled;
(o) request, require or induce another person:
(i) to show a ballot paper to the first person; or
(ii) to permit the first person to see a ballot paper in such a manner that the first person can see the vote;
while the ballot paper is being marked or after it has been marked;
(p) do an act that results in a ballot box or other ballot receptacle being destroyed, taken, opened or otherwise interfered with.
Note: This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).
Meaning of utter
(2) A person is taken to utter a forged document if the person:
(a) uses or deals with it; or
(b) attempts to use or deal with it; or
(c) attempts to induce another person to use, deal with, act upon, or accept it.
Obligations of person performing functions or exercising powers for the purposes of a protected action ballot
(3) A person (the first person ) who is performing functions or exercising powers for the purposes of a protected action ballot must not show to another person, or permit another person to have access to, a ballot paper used in the ballot, except in the course of performing those functions or exercising those powers.
Note: This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).