43, Every person who
| (a) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or ; |
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| (b) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person; or |
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| (c) sells or offers to sell any ballot paper to any person or purchases or offers to purchase any ballot paper from any person ; or |
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| (d) not being a person entitled under this Act to be to possession of any ballot paper which has been marked with the official mark in accordance with this Act, has any such ballot paper in his possession ; or |
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| (e) puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in ; or |
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| (f) without due authority takes out of the polling station any ballot paper or is found in possession of any ballot paper outside a polling station; or |
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| (g) without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers in use or intended to be used for the purposes of a Referendum , or |
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| (h) without due authority prints any ballot paper of what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at a Referendum; or |
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| (i) manufactures, constructs, imports into the Republic, has in his possession, supplies or uses for the purpose of a Referendum, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported into the Republic, supplied or used for the purpose of a Referendum, any appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may be extracted, affected or manipulated after having been deposited in a ballot box during the polling at a Referendum ; or |
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| (j) willfully makes a false statement in any application to be treated as a postal voter under this Act, or in any declaration of identity sent to him under the postal voters' regulations set out in the First Schedule to this Act; or |
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| (k) without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise tampers or interferes with, any application to be treated as a postal voter, or any declaration of identity, or any covering envelope or ballot paper envelope within the meaning of the postal voters' regulations set out in the First Schedule to this Act; or |
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| (l) without due authority prints any official poll card or what purports to be or is capable of being used as an official poll card at a Referendum; or |
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| (m) without due authority places an appropriate mark on any voter at a Referendum or what purports to be or is capable of being mistaken for that mark; or |
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| (n) fraudulently defaces an appropriate mark placed on any voter at a Referendum without due authority; or |
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| (o) votes at a Referendum knowing that he is legally incapable of, or disqualified from, so voting; |
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by the High Court, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding two years and shall, by conviction, become incapable, for a period of seven years from the date of his conviction, of being registered as an elector or of voting at a Referendum under this Act, or of being elected as a Member of Parliament, and if at that date he has been elected as a Member of Parliament, his election shall be vacated from the date; Of such conviction. |
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