65 Tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc
Representation of the People Act 1983 (1983 c 2) | Legislation

65  Tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc

(1)     A person shall be guilty of an offence, if, at a parliamentary or local government election, he—

(a)     fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper; or

(b)     fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper, or the official mark on any ballot paper, or any [postal voting statement or] declaration of identity or official envelope used in connection with voting by post; or

(c)     without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person; or

(d)     fraudulently puts into any ballot box any paper other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to

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