The Crofting Commission (Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Offences relating to applications for absent and proxy votes

57.—(1) A person commits an offence if he or she—

(a) engages in an act specified in paragraph (2) at an election; and

(b) intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for himself or herself or another a gain of a vote to which he or she or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.

(2) These acts are—

(a) applying for an absent or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);

(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for an absent or proxy vote;

(c) inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to an absent or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the elector;

(d) causing a communication relating to an absent or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.

(3) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of an offence under paragraph (1) commits an offence.