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E-3.3 - Election Act
Section 556
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556. The following persons are liable to a fine of $1,000 to $10,000 for a first offence and of $10,000 to $30,000 for any subsequent offence within 10 years in the case of a natural person, or to a fine of $5,000 to $30,000 for a first offence and of $20,000 to $60,000 for any subsequent offence within 10 years in the case of a legal person:
(1) every employer who contravenes section 144, 248 to 254 or 335;
(2) every employer who uses his authority or his influence to incite any of his employees to refuse to become an election officer or to abandon that office after having accepted it;
(3) every person who, illegally and without right, counterfeits, manufactures, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by the enumerators;
(4) every person who knowingly spreads false news of the withdrawal of a candidate;
(5) every person who knowingly prints or uses a false ballot paper or alters or counterfeits a ballot paper.
556. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for every subsequent offence within five years, in the case of a natural person, or, in the case of a legal person, to a fine of $300 to $3,000 for a first offence and of $600 to $6,000 for every subsequent offence within five years:
(1) every employer who contravenes section 144, 248 to 254 or 335;
(2) every employer who uses his authority or his influence to incite any of his employees to refuse to become an election officer or to abandon that office after having accepted it;
(3) every person who, illegally and without right, counterfeits, manufactures, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by the enumerators;
(4) every person who knowingly spreads false news of the withdrawal of a candidate;
(5) every person who knowingly prints or uses a false ballot paper or alters or counterfeits a ballot paper.
