Electoral (Fraudulent Actions) Amendment Bill 2001* (Qld)
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Queensland
ELECTORAL (FRAUDULENT
ACTIONS) AMENDMENT
BILL 2001
Queensland
ELECTORAL (FRAUDULENT ACTIONS)
AMENDMENT BILL 2001
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
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1 Short title. 2... eee eens 4
2 Act amended ...... 0... 00. ec cee eens 4
3 Insertion of news 160A .. 0... eee eee 4
160A Fraudulently influencing election outcomes ...............0... 4
A BILL
FOR
An Act to amend the Electoral Act 1992
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Electoral (Fraudulent Actions) Amendment Bill 2001
The Parliament of Queensland enacts—
1__ Short title
This Act may be cited as the Electoral (Fraudulent Actions) Amendment
Act 2001.
2 Act amended
This Act amends the Electoral Act 1992.
3 Insertion of new s 160A
Part 9, division 1—
insert—
'160A Fraudulently influencing election outcomes
'(1) A person must not do an act with intent to fraudulently influence the
outcome of an election.
Minimum penalty, if subsection (2) applies—3 months imprisonment.
Maximum penalty—3 years imprisonment.
'(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person is taken to have done an
act with intent to fraudulently influence the outcome of an election if—
(a) the person does an act with intent to have a person, whether the
person or someone else, enrolled for an electoral district; and
(b) the person doing the act is aware the person to be enrolled is not
entitled to be enrolled for the electoral district.'.
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