E-3.3 - Election Act

Section 553 Disposition versions

2013-11-04

553. The following persons are liable to a fine of $500 to $2,000 for a first offence and of $3,000 to $30,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:

(1)  every manager, superintendent, caretaker, operator, owner or person in charge of a place described in the first paragraph of section 135.1 and every person in authority at a centre or an institution described in the second paragraph of section 135.1 who hinders access to a special board of revisors, to a mobile board of revisors, to a polling station or to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(3)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate using a false power of attorney;

(4)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165; 1995, c. 23, s. 48; 2006, c. 17, s. 32; 2008, c. 22, s. 77; 2011, c. 38, s. 15; 2013, c. 5, s. 12.

2011-12-09

553. The following persons are liable to a fine of $500 to $2,000 for a first offence and of $3,000 to $30,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:

(1)  every executive director, manager, superintendent, caretaker, operator, owner or person in charge of a place described in section 135.1 who hinders access to a mobile board of revisors, to a polling station set up in that place or to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(3)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate using a false power of attorney;

(4)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165; 1995, c. 23, s. 48; 2006, c. 17, s. 32; 2008, c. 22, s. 77; 2011, c. 38, s. 15.

2008-06-20

553. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:

(1)  every executive director, manager, superintendent, caretaker, operator, owner or person in charge of a place described in section 135.1 who hinders access to a mobile board of revisors, to a polling station set up in that place or to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(3)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate using a false power of attorney;

(4)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165; 1995, c. 23, s. 48; 2006, c. 17, s. 32; 2008, c. 22, s. 77.

2006-06-14

553. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1 000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2 000 for any subsequent offence within five years:

(1)  every executive director, manager, superintendent, caretaker, operator, owner or person in charge of a residential facility referred to in section 301.6 who hinders access to a polling station set up in the facility or to a mobile advance polling station;

(2)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(3)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate using a false power of attorney;

(4)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165; 1995, c. 23, s. 48; 2006, c. 17, s. 32.

1999-04-01

553. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1 000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2 000 for any subsequent offence within five years:

(1)  every executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who hinders access to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(3)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate using a false power of attorney;

(4)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165; 1995, c. 23, s. 48.

1992-10-01

553. 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:

(1)  every executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who hinders access to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who votes more than once at the same election;

(3)  every deputy returning officer who permits a person to vote without being registered on the list of electors;

(4)  every person who votes without being entitled to vote;

(5)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(6)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate when his power of attorney is false;

(7)  every deputy returning officer who remits a ballot paper to a person who refuses to make the oath required;

(8)  every deputy returning officer who knowingly admits to vote a person who has already voted;

(9)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553; 1992, c. 21, s. 165.

1989-04-24

553. 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:

(1)  every director of a hospital centre or reception centre who hinders access to a mobile polling station;

(2)  every person who votes more than once at the same election;

(3)  every deputy returning officer who permits a person to vote without being registered on the list of electors;

(4)  every person who votes without being entitled to vote;

(5)  every person who modifies or imitates the initials of the deputy returning officer;

(6)  every person who acts as the representative of a candidate when his power of attorney is false;

(7)  every deputy returning officer who remits a ballot paper to a person who refuses to make the oath required;

(8)  every deputy returning officer who knowingly admits to vote a person who has already voted;

(9)  every election officer who arrives late at the polling station in order to delay the opening of the poll.

1989, c. 1, s. 553.