I-14 - The Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons

Section 137 Disposition versions

1999-04-01

137. (Repealed).

R. S. 1964, c. 235, s. 157; 1989, c. 36, s. 237.

1977-12-31

137. Every one who:

(1)  Forges, counterfeits, fraudulently alters, defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot paper or the initials of the presiding officer signed thereon; or

(2)  Without authority supplies a ballot paper to any person; or

(3)  Fraudulently puts into a ballot box a paper other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in; or

(4)  Fraudulently takes a ballot paper out of the polling station; or

(5)  Without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purposes of the election; or

(6)  Being the returning officer or a deputy returning officer, fraudulently puts, otherwise than as authorized by section 130, his initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

(7)  With fraudulent intent prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

(8)  Being authorized by the presiding officer to print the ballot papers for an election, prints, with fraudulent intent, more ballot papers than he is authorized to print; or

(9)  Attempts to commit any offence specified in this section,

shall be guilty of an offence summarily triable, and liable to the penalties hereinafter set forth.

If the person who commits any of the above-mentioned offences be the presiding officer or any election officer, he shall in that case be liable to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, and, on failure to pay such fine, to imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than three years; and, if he be any other person, to a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $400, and, on failure to pay such fine, to imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than two years.

R. S. 1964, c. 235, s. 157.