Offences as to declarations, etc.
12 Offences as to declarations, etc.
(1)
A person who makes an overseas elector’s declaration or a declaration purporting to be an overseas elector’s declaration—
(a)
when he knows that he is subject to a legal incapacity to vote at parliamentary elections (age apart), or
(b)
when he knows that it contains a statement which is false,
is guilty of an offence.
(2)
A person who attests an overseas elector’s declaration or a declaration purporting to be an overseas elector’s declaration when he knows—
(a)
that he is not authorised to attest such a declaration, or
(b)
that it contains a statement which is false,
is guilty of an offence.
(3)
A person who makes a statement which he knows to be false in any declaration or form used for any of the purposes of sections 5 to 9 of this Act or attests an application under section 6 or 7 of this Act when he knows that he is not authorised to do so or that it contains a statement which is false is guilty of an offence.
(4)
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.