Section 92Part 9 — Election Offences
Employers to allow employees time
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92. (1) Every employer shall, on polling day allow to every elector in that person’s employ a reasonable period for voting, and no employer shall make any deduction from the pay or other remuneration of any such elector or impose upon or extract from that elector any penalty by reason of that person’s absence during such period.
Any employer who, directly or indirectly, refuses, or by intimidation, undue influence or in any other way, interferes with the granting to any elector in that person’s employ of such period for voting, as is in this section provided, commits an offence and on summary conviction before a magistrate is liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months.