Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 186

186 .         Disqualification for bribery or undue influence

                Any person who —

            (a)         is convicted of bribery or undue influence, or of attempted bribery or undue influence, at an election; or

            (b)         is found by the Court of Disputed Returns to have committed or attempted to commit bribery or undue influence when a candidate,

                shall, during a period of 2 years from the date of the conviction or finding, be disqualified from being elected as, or from being, a member of the Council or the Assembly.

        [Section 186 amended: No. 64 of 2006 s. 53.]