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

56 ss. 104, 105 CRIMINAL CODE
(3) Asks, receives, or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive
or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or
any other person on account of a promise made by him OF
any other person to endeavour to procure the return of any
person at an election, or the vote of any person at an election;
or
(4) Advances or pays any money to or to the use of any otber
person with the intent that such money shall be applied for
any of the purposes hereinbefore in this section mentioned,
or in discharge or repayment of money wholly or in part
applied for any such purpose; or
(5) Corruptly transfers or pays any pro erty or money to any
person for the purpose of enabling that person to be
registered as an elector, and thereby of influencing the vote
of that person at a future election; or
(6) Is privy to any such transfer or payment as last-mentioned
which is made for his benefit,
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for one year, or to a fine of four hundred dollars.
As amended by Act of 1973, No. 8, s. 25.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
ces. Any person convicted of any
of the offences defined in the five last preceding sections committed with
respect to a parliamentary election becomes incapable, for three years
from the date of the conviction, of being registered as an elector or of
voting at any parliame~tary election or of holding any judicial ofice; and,
if he holds any such office, the office is vacated.
He also becomes incapable for the like period of being appointed
to or of sitting in the Legislative Council, and of being elected to or of
sitting in the hgislative Assembly; and, if at the time of the ~nvic~o~
he is a member of either House, his seat is vacated.
Any person convicted of any such offence committed with respect
to a municipal election becomes incapable, for two years from the date
of the conv~ction, of holding any municipal office, and, if he holds any
such oace, the office is vacated.
% ces. Any person who-
(1) Being prohibited by law from voting at an election, and
knowing that he is so prohibited, votes at the election; or
(2) Procures any person who is, and whom he knows to be,
prohibited from voting at an election to vote at the election;
Or
(3) Before or during an election, and for the puipose of
promoting or procuring the choice of any candidate at the
election, knowingly publishes a false statement of the with-
drawal of another candidate at the election; or
(4) Before or during an election, and for the purpose of
affecting the return of a candidate at the election, knowingly
publishes a false statement of fact respecting the personal
character or conduct of the candidate; or