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

54 ss. 96-88 CRIMINAL CODE
This section does not apply to an oath, declaration, affirmation, or
affidavit, administered or taken before a justice in any matter relating to
the preservation of the peace or the punishment of offences, or relating
to inquiries respecting sudden death, or to proceedings before either ‘
House of Parliament or a Committee of either House; nor to an oath,
declaration, affirmation, or affidavit, administered or taken f
purpose which is lawful under the laws of another country, or
purpose of giving validity to an instrument in writing which is i
to be used in another country.
or@. Any person whojustice
assumes to act as a ju s 1’ ice; or
(2) Without authority assumes to act as a person having
authority by law to administer an oath or take a solemrm
declaration or affirmation or affidavit, or to do any other
act of a public nature which can oiily be done by persons
authorised by law to do so; or
(3) Represents himself to be a person authorised by law to
sign a document testifying to the contents of any register or
record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact or
event, and sips such document as being so authorised, when
he is not, and knows that he is not, in fact, so aut~orise~;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with I??
labour for three years.
cers. Any person whotes
any person employed in the Public Service om an
occasion when the latter is required to do any act or ten^
in any place by virtue of his employment; or
(2) Falsely represents himself to be a person employ
Public Service, and assumes to do any act or to
any place for the purpose of doing any act by virtue of such
employment ;
is guilty of a ~s~emeano~r, and is liable to imprisonment with
labour for three years.
A person found committing the offence may be arrested without
warrant.
CHAPTER XIV-CORRUPT AND IMPROPER PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS
tioams. In this Chapter-
The term “election” includes any election held under the aut~o~~ty
of any Statute providing for the choice of persons to fill any ofice or
place of a public character;
The term “elector” includes any person entitled to vote at an
election;
The term “municipal election” includes any election held under my
laws relating to local government;
The term “ballot box” includes any receptacle in which voting-papers
are put before being counted at an election;
The term “polling-booth’’ includes any room or place in which
voting at an election is conducted or in which the votes are counted.