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knowingly makes any false statement on or in connection with any application to be placed on any register of electors; or

forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulent-ly destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to a returning officer any nomination paper knowing the same to be forged; or

forges or counterfeits or fraudulently de-faces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or

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without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person; or

sells or offers to sell any ballot paper to any person or purchases or offers to purchase any bal-lot paper from any person; or

not being a person entitled to be in posses-sion of any ballot paper which has been marked with any authorised mark.has any such ballot pap-er in his possession; or

puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in; or

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without due authority takes out of the poll-ing station any ballot paper or is found in posses-sion of any ballot paper outside a polling station;

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without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box, ballot paper, or packet of ballot papers in use or intended to be used for the purposes of an elec-tion; or

without due authority prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

for the purposes of an election, manufac-tures, constructs, imports into Brunei, has in his possession, supplies or uses, or causes to be manu-factured, constructed, imported into Brunei, sup-plied or used, any appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may be extracted, affected or manipulated after having been deposited in a ballot box during the polling at any election; or 9

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Election Offences

votes at any election when he is not entitled to vote thereat; or

prints any advertisement, hand-bill, placard or poster which refers to an election and contains a reproduction of a ballot paper, or of what purports to be a ballot paper, to be used or likely to be used at such election:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the printing in any such advertisement, hand-bill, placard or poster of the name or symbol of one candi-date only, together with a reproduction of a cross or other mark indicating approval of such name or symbol;

shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for 3

years and a fine of $10,000 and, subject to any provision to the contrary in any written law relating to any election, shall until the expiration of 5 years from conviction or release from such imprisonment, whichever shall be the later, be incapable of being registered or listed as an elector or of voting at any election or of being elected at any election, and if at that date he has been elected at any election, his seat shall be vacated from the date of such conviction .

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