The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

300 CRIMvINAL PRACTICE RULGFORMS
or (2.) Claimed to be an elector, and offered to vote at the said election, and,
being then lawfully required to make a declaration before voting, wilfully made
a false declaration to the eRec$ that (state substance of false statement), whereas in
truth (state the truth).
NO. 71.-INTERFERING WITH SECRECY AT ELECTIONS.
Section ii4.
State the hola~ng of the election, the name of accused, and the date and place
of offence, as in Form No. 67, and proceed:
(1.) Knowingly and wilfully, and without the lawful command of a competent
eourt or tribunal, unfastened the fold upon a ballot paper which had been used
at the said election, which folg had been made under the authority of the law,
and within which the number of an elector was written:
or (2.) Being a returning officer [or presiding officer QT poll clerk or scrutineer]
at the said election, attempted to ascertain [or discover] [or aided in ascertaining
(or discovering)] the candidate for whom the vote of one E.F., a person who
voted at the said election, and did not vote openly, was given:
or (3.) Being (&c. as in (2)), and having in the exercise of his said office
obtained knowledge of the candidate for whom the vote of one E.F., a person
who voted at the said election, was given, disclosed such kuowledge to one M.N.,
such disclosure not being made in answer to a question put in the course of
proceedings before a competent eourt or tribunal :
or (4.) Being (&e. as in (2)), placed [or wrote] upon a ballot paper used at
the said election a mark [or certain words (or figures)] not authorised by law.
NO. 72.-BREAKING SEAL OF PACKETS USED AT ELECTIONS.
Section 115.
Knowingly and wilfully, and without the lawful command of any competent
court or tribunal, opened [or broke the seal of] a sealed parcel which had been
duly sealed under the provisions of the laws relating to elections.
NO. 73.-OFFENCES AT ELECTIONS WEEN VOTING IS BY POST.
Section 116.
State the holding of the election, US in Form No. 56, and proceed: at which
election the voting was by post: And that A.B. on &e. at 4-0.
(1.) Knowing that he was not entitled to vote at the said election, signed his
name as a voter to a voting paper issued by the returning officer for use at the
said election :
or (2.) Signed the name of one E.F. to a voting paper issued by the returning
officer for use at the said election:
or (3.) Attested the signature of one M.N. as a voter to a voting paper issued
by the returning officer for use at the said election, whereas the said M.N. was
not entitled to vote by means of such voting paper, as he the said A.B. then well
knew.
NO. 74.-FALSE CLAIMS.
Section 117.
(1.) Made a claim to have his name inserted in an electoral list for the
electoral district of B.N. (or as the case may be), and in the said claim wilfully
stated falsely that (state substance of false statement), whereas in truth (state the
truth)
(2.) Attended at a registration court duly held for [the B. Division of] the
electoral district of 0. and, his qualification [or the qualification of one M.N.]
as an elector of the said electoral district being then under consideration by the
said court, wilfully made a false statement to the said court relating to his said
qualification [or to the qualification of the said M.N.], to the effect, that (state
substance of false statement), whereas in truth (state the truth).
(3.) Wilfully made a false statement in writing to the registration court for
(&c. as above) relating to his qualification (or the qualification of one M.N.) as an
elector of the said electoral district, which was then under cansideration by the
said court, to the effect that (bc. as in (2)).