New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 250

250 Offences in relation to elections

(1) A person must not, without lawful authority or excuse, in relation to an election for an office in a State organisation--

(a) personate another person to secure a ballot-paper to which the personator is not entitled, or personate another person for the purpose of voting, or

(b) destroy, deface, alter, take or otherwise interfere with a nomination paper, ballot-paper or envelope, or

(c) put or deliver a ballot-paper or other paper--

(i) into a ballot-box or other ballot receptacle, or

(ii) into the post, or

(d) deliver a ballot-paper or other paper to a person receiving ballot-papers for the purposes of the election or ballot, or

(e) record a vote that the person is not entitled to record, or

(f) record more than one vote, or

(g) forge a nomination paper, ballot-paper or envelope, or utter a nomination paper, ballot-paper or envelope that the person knows to be forged, or

(h) provide a ballot-paper, or

(i) obtain, or have possession, of a ballot-paper, or

(j) destroy, take, open or otherwise interfere with a ballot-box or other ballot receptacle.

(2) A person must not, without lawful authority or excuse, in relation to an election for an office in a State organisation threaten, offer or suggest, or use, cause, inflict or procure, any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage because of, or to induce--

(a) any candidature or withdrawal of candidature, or

(b) any vote or omission to vote, or

(c) any support or opposition to any candidate, or

(d) any promise of any vote, omission, support or opposition.

(3) A person (in this subsection called
"the relevant person" ) must not, without lawful authority or excuse, in relation to an election for an office in a State organisation--

(a) request, require or induce another person to show a ballot-paper to the relevant person, or permit the relevant person to see a ballot-paper, in such a manner that the relevant person can see the vote, while the ballot-paper is being marked or after it has been marked, or

(b) if the relevant person is a person performing duties for the purposes of the ballot, show to another person, or permit another person to have access to, a ballot-paper used in the ballot, otherwise than in the performance of those duties.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.