Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 187A

187A .         Intentionally rendering person unable to vote etc.

        (1)         A person who does any act or engages in any course of conduct intending that as a result thereof another person —

            (a)         will be rendered; or

            (b)         will be encouraged or assisted to render himself,

                unable to vote or mentally incapable of voting commits an offence and is liable to be punished under section 188(2).

        (2)         Subject to proof of the other elements of the offence, a person is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) notwithstanding that —

            (a)         the other person was not rendered or did not render himself unable or incapable as mentioned therein; or

            (b)         the other person did vote.

        (3)         An act or course of conduct which is made an offence under subsection (1) is also an illegal practice for the purposes of this Act.

        [Section 187A inserted: No. 52 of 1980 s. 2.]