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(i) votes at the election more than once in the same constituency; or

(ii) votes at the election in more than one constituency.

(2) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person invites or induces another person—

(a) to vote at the election knowing that the other person is not entitled to do so; or

(b) to vote at the election knowing that the other person has—

(i) given to an electoral officer information that was materially false or misleading; or

(ii) omitted to give material information to an electoral officer; or

(c) except as expressly permitted by an electoral law—

(i) to vote at the election more than once in the same constituency; or

(ii) to vote at the election in more than one constituency.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a person who has applied for a ballot paper for the purpose of voting at an election is taken to have voted at the election. However, a person who has applied for, and been given, a ballot paper is not to be regarded as having voted more than once at an election only because the person—

(a) has spoilt the ballot paper; and

(b) after complying with the requirements of any relevant electoral law with respect to spoilt ballot papers, has voted, using another ballot paper.

17. Corrupt conduct to destroy or deface ballot papers

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

(a) without lawful authority, supplies a ballot paper to another person; or

(b) with intent to deceive, puts into a ballot box a paper other than a ballot paper that the person is lawfully authorized to put into the box; or

(c) with intent to deceive, removes a ballot paper from a polling station; or

(d) without lawful authority, destroys, defaces, takes or otherwise interferes with a ballot paper in use, or that has been used, at the election; or

(e) without lawful authority, destroys, removes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box in use at the election.

(2) In a prosecution for an offence against this section, the onus of proving lawful authority lies on the defendant.