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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of electors - Offences

119: Wilfully misleading Electoral Commission

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"Don't give false information to the Electoral Commission or you might get fined"

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If you deliberately give false information to the Electoral Commission, you can get in trouble. You might do this when the Electoral Commission is making a list of people who can vote. If you put a false name on the list or say something that is not true, you can be fined up to $2,000. You can also get in trouble if you sign someone else's name on a form, or sign a false name, without being asked to do so. If you sign a form as a witness without checking that the person signing it is who they say they are, you can be fined too.

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Part 5Registration of electors
Offences

119Wilfully misleading Electoral Commission

  1. Every person shall for each offence be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 who—

  2. wilfully misleads the Electoral Commission in the compilation of any roll or list, or wilfully enters or causes to be entered thereon any false or fictitious name or qualification or the name of any person whom he or she knows to be dead:
    1. signs the name of any person, whether requested to do so or not, or any false or fictitious name to any form of application or objection for the purposes of this Part either as applicant, objector, or witness:
      1. signs his or her name as witness to any signature upon any such form of application or objection without either seeing the signature written or hearing the person signing declare that the signature is in his or her own handwriting and that the name so signed is his or her own proper name.

        Notes
        • Section 119 heading: amended, on , by section 57(1) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 9).
        • Section 119: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
        • Section 119(a): amended, on , by section 57(2) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 9).