o. .Legislative Council (Elections). 191.


 transaction of the business of a public meeting called for
 the purpose of promoting the election of a candidate as a
 member to servein the Legislative Council,
shall be guilty of an illegal practice, and shall, on summary
conviction thereof, be liable to a fin e-of four hundred and eighty
dollars-and be incapable, during a period of five years from the
date of conviction, of being'registered as an elector, or voting t.
any election.
 (2) Every person who between the date of notification by the
 Supervisor of Elections of the issue by the Governor of a writ for
 purposes of an election and the day after polling at such election,
 whether in a general election -or in a bye-election, incites,
 combines or conspires with others to act in a disorderly manner
 with intent to prevent the transaction of the business of a public
 meeting called for' the purpose of promoting tihe election of a
 candidate as a member to serve in the Legislative Council, shall
"be guilty of ap illegal practice and shall, on conviction on-
indictment thereof, be-liable to imprisonment, for two years, and
be incapable, during a. period of five -years from the date of
conviction, of being registered as an elector, or voting at any
election.
 (3) Any person who, before or during any election, for the
 purpose of affecting the return of any candidate at such election,
 makes or publishes any false statement of fact in relation to the
 personal character or conduct -of any candidate shall be
 guilty of an illegal practice and shall on summary conviction
 thereof be liable to a fine of four hundred and eighty dollars.

 69. Every person who- Offences in
 (a) forges or counterfeits, or fraudulently defaces or.destroys, respect of
 aniy ballot paper; or ballot papers.
 (b) without due authority supplies a ballot paper to any
 person; or
 (c) fraudulently puts into any ballot box any paper other than
 the ballot paper 'which he is authorised by law to put in;
 or
 (d) fraudulently takes out of the polling station any ballot
 paper; or
 S(e) without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise-
 interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers
 then in use for the purposes of any election; or
 (f) not being duly registered as an elector, votes at an election,
 shall be liable, on summary conviction, if he is returning officer or
 presiding officer, or clerk employed at a polling station, to \
 Imprisonment for one year or to a fine of four hundred and eighty
 dollars, and, if he is any other person, to imprisonment for six
 months or to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars.