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.