SCHEDULES

C1C2C3C4C5C6C8C7C9 SCHEDULE 12 Meetings and Proceedings of Local Authorities

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Sch. 12 applied with modifications by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 160(2)

Sch. 12: power conferred to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this Schedule (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(ii); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)

Part V Community Meetings

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If any person, in a F1poll consequent on a community meetingF1community governance poll—

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.