254. The returning officer or deputy returning officer may, during the nomination day and polling day at any election, require any person within 1/2 km of the place of nomination or of the polling station to deliver to him any firearm, sword, stave, bludgeon or other offensive weapon in the hands or personal possession of such person.
Every person who refuses to deliver such weapon shall be guilty of an offence summarily triable, and liable to a fine of not more than $100, and, upon failure to pay such fine, to imprisonment for a term of not more than three months.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 283; 1984, c. 47, s. 213.