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ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - SECT 191

191 .         False statement in electoral paper

        (1)         A person shall not knowingly or wilfully make a false statement in any electoral paper, or in answer to any question under this Act, or in any information supplied to any officer or canvasser for the purposes of the preparation of new rolls.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (2)         Subsection (1) shall not affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against in respect of any other offence, but he shall not be liable to be punished twice in respect of the same offence.

        (3)         In this section the words electoral paper include any prescribed form.

        [Section 191 inserted: No. 5 of 1918 s. 5; amended: No. 59 of 1919 s. 6; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 64 of 2006 s. 47.]



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