Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 114

114 Breaking the seal of a parcel at elections

(1) A person who wilfully opens or breaks the seal of a parcel sealed under the authorising Act for an election commits a misdemeanour.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—2 years imprisonment.

(2) A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) only by doing something the person is ordered by a court or authorised under the authorising Act to do.

(3) Also subsection (1) does not apply to a police officer doing a thing in the course of performing a duty of a police officer.