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13. Corrupt conduct to use or threaten to use force or duress against electors

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—

(a) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person to vote at the election, or to vole at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(b) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person because the other person voted at the election, or voted at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(c) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person to get a third person to vote at the election, or to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.

(2) A person also engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person—

(a) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to induce the other person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(b) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person because the other person refrained from voting at the election, or refrained from voting at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(c) uses force or duress, or threatens to use force or duress, against another person to get the other person to induce a third person not to vote at the election, or not to vote at the election for a particular candidate or particular candidates; or

(d) by abduction, prevents an elector from voting at the election.

(3) A person is taken to have engaged in corrupt conduct of a kind referred to in subsection (1) or (2) even though the conduct was engaged in by another person, but only if the other person was acting with the person's authority. That authority may be conferred expressly or by implication.

(4) A corporate elector does not contravene this section only because it has instructed its authorized representative to cast its vote, or not to cast its vote, at an election for a particular candidate or particular candidates.

14. Corrupt conduct to engage in certain deceptive behaviour in relation to electors

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person, by a deception—