128Signature to electoral paper

128  Signature to electoral paper

 (1) Every electoral paper which by this Act or the regulations has to be signed by any person must be signed by that person with his or her personal signature unless the person is registered on the grounds specified under paragraph 184A(2)(e) or (f) of the CEA.

 (2) Where a person who is unable to sign his or her name in writing makes a mark as his or her signature to an electoral paper, the mark is taken to be his or her personal signature, if it is identifiable as such, and is made in the presence of a witness who signs the electoral paper as such witness.

 (3) Nothing in this section authorises any person to sign any electoral paper by a mark or otherwise than in his or her own handwriting in cases where the Act or the regulations require that the electoral paper be signed in the person’s own handwriting.

 (4) A person must not make the signature of any other person on an electoral paper.

 (5) Subsection (4) does not affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against for forgery, but a person is not be liable to be punished twice in respect of the same offence.

 (6) In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or an *approved form.