Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 113

113 Interfering with secrecy at elections

(1) This section applies to an election at which voting is by ballot.

(2) A person who unfolds a ballot paper that has been marked and folded by an elector at the election commits a misdemeanour.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

(3) An officer who ascertains or discovers, or attempts to ascertain or discover, how an elector has voted at the election commits a misdemeanour.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

(4) An officer who discloses any information about how an elector has voted at the election commits a misdemeanour.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

(5) An officer who places a mark or writing on an elector’s ballot paper commits a misdemeanour.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

(6) A person does not commit an offence against this section only by doing something the person is ordered by a court or authorised under the authorising Act to do.

(7) Also this section does not apply to a police officer doing a thing in the course of performing a duty of a police officer.

(8) In this section—

"officer" , in relation to an election, means a person performing duties at the election under the authorising Act.