Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 181

181 .         Offence of bribery

                Any person who —

            (a)         promises, or offers, or suggests any valuable consideration, advantage, recompense, reward, or benefit for or on account of, or to induce any candidature or withdrawal of candidature, or any vote or omission to vote, or any support of, or opposition to, any candidate, or any promise of any such vote, omission, support, or opposition; or

            (b)         gives or takes any valuable consideration, advantage, recompense, reward, or benefit for, or on account of, any such candidature, withdrawal, vote, omission, support or opposition, referred to in paragraph (a), or promise thereof; or

            (c)         promises, offers, or suggests any valuable consideration, advantage, recompense, reward or benefit for bribery, or gives or takes any valuable consideration, advantage, recompense, reward, or benefit for bribery; or

            (d)         directly or indirectly makes overtures to any person for the acquiring by gift or purchase, or who acquires by gift or purchase from any person, a postal ballot paper; or

            (e)         being an elector directly or indirectly makes overtures to any person for the giving away, or parting with the possession of, or selling, a postal ballot paper; or who gives away a postal ballot paper; or who sells a postal ballot paper; or, except as provided for in Part IV Division 3A Subdivision 6, parts with the possession of a postal ballot paper,

                is guilty of bribery.

        [Section 181 amended: No. 53 of 1957 s. 15; No. 51 of 1962 s. 9; No. 39 of 1979 s. 5; No. 66 of 1983 s. 5; No. 36 of 2000 s. 48(1); No. 30 of 2023 s. 156.]