SCHEDULE 12 Meetings and Proceedings of Local Authorities
Part V Community Meetings
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If any person, in a poll consequent on a community meeting—
(a)
fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark; or
(b)
without due authority supplies a ballot paper to any person; or
(c)
fraudulently puts into a 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
(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 the poll;
he shall—
(i)
if he is a returning officer, or an authorised person appointed to assist in taking the poll or counting the votes, be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; and
(ii)
in any other case, be liable, on conviction on indictment or summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding £50, or both.