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Offences in relation to elections.
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17.—Every person who—
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(a) without lawful authority takes a ballot box provided for or in use at an election under this Act out of the custody of the returning officer at such election or of any person to whose care or custody such returning officer shall lawfully have entrusted such ballot box, or
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(b) maliciously destroys, mutilates, or injures any ballot box provided for or in use at an election under this Act, or
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(c) maliciously destroys, tears, or defaces any ballot paper provided for or issued or used at an election under this Act, or
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(d) counterfeits the official mark provided for or in use or used at an election under this Act, or
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(e) removes, destroys, or damages any instrument provided or in use or used for stamping the official mark on ballot papers at an election under this Act or makes or has in his possession any imitation or counterfeit of any such instrument, or
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(f) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper for or relating to an election under this Act or delivers to the returning officer at any such election a nomination paper knowing the same to be forged, or
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(g) forges or counterfeits any ballot paper at or in relation to an election under this Act or forges or counterfeits the official mark on any such ballot paper, or
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(h) without due authority supplies to any person a ballot paper for or in relation to an election under this Act, or
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(i) without due authority opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box provided for or in use at an election under this Act,
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shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one year or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding two years or penal servitude for any period not less than three years nor more than five years.
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