Section 93Part 9 — Election Offences
Offences by election officers
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93. Every election officer who —
makes, in any record, return or other document which that election officer is required to keep or make under this Act, any entry which that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false, or does not believe to be true;
permits a person, whom that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe not to be a person unable from physical or other disability to vote without assistance, to vote in the manner provided by this Act for a person who is unable from physical or other disability to vote without assistance;
refuses to permit a person, whom that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe is unable from physical or other disability to vote without assistance, to vote in the manner provided by this Act for such a person; Section 94 Elections Act (2022 Revision) Page 60 Revised as at 31st December, 2021 c
wilfully prevents any person from voting at the polling station at which that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe such person is entitled to vote;
wilfully neglects or refuses to count any vote which that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe is validly cast for any candidate in accordance with this Act; or
wilfully counts any vote as being cast for any candidate, which that election officer knows or has reasonable cause to believe was not validly cast for such candidate, commits an offence, and on summary conviction before a magistrate, is liable to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months.