Constitutional Convention (Election) Act 1997
129Witnessing electoral papers
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129 Witnessing electoral papers
(a) sign as witness any blank electoral paper; or
(b) sign as witness any electoral paper which has been wholly or partly filled up unless it has been signed by the person intended to sign it; or
(c) sign as witness any electoral paper unless he or she has seen the person, whose signature he or she purports to witness, sign it; or
(d) write on any electoral paper as his or her own name:
(i) the name of another person; or
(ii) any name not being his or her own name.
(2) In this section, electoral paper includes a document in a prescribed or *approved form.