Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Any person who —
(1) threatens, offers,
or suggests any violence, injury, punishment, damage, loss, or disadvantage
for or on account of or to induce any candidature, or withdrawal of
candidature, or any vote or any omission to vote, or any support or opposition
to any candidate, or any promise of any vote, omission, support, or
opposition;
(2) or uses, causes,
inflicts, or procures any violence, punishment, damage, loss, or disadvantage
for or on account of any such candidature, withdrawal, vote, omission, support
or opposition, referred to in paragraph (1);
(3) or by spoken
words, or by written or printed words or signs in any form whatsoever,
publishes any matter intended or intending to prevent or restrain the free
exercise of the franchise by any person, or which threaten, offer, or suggest
any damage, loss, or disadvantage, either in the present or in the future, to
any person on account of their political opinions;
(4) or in any way
interferes with any elector, either in a place to vote, or within 6 m from a
designated entrance for the place to vote, with the intention of influencing
the elector or advising the elector as to their vote;
[(5), (6) deleted]
(7) or, being a
candidate attends at any meeting of electors other than the candidate’s
committee held for electoral purposes on polling day,
is guilty of undue
influence.
[Section 183 amended: No. 63 of 1948 s. 26; No. 59
of 1959 s. 13; No. 51 of 1962 s. 11; No. 94 of 1972 s. 4; No. 39 of 1979 s. 5;
No. 66 of 1983 s. 7; No. 7 of 2009 s. 15; No. 35 of 2012 s. 31; No. 30 of 2023
s. 157.]