495. Every person who(1) performs duties reserved to the election officers without being qualified therefor, without being officially appointed or without making the oath required;
(2) hinders the work of an election officer;
(3) is the chief electoral officer, one of his officers or an election officer and fraudulently neglects or refuses to act, or acts against this Act;
(4) is a former election officer and, after having been dismissed or having ceased to carry out his functions, refuses to return the official documents in his possession to the returning officer,is guilty of an offence.