Criminal Code Act 1983
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90 Illegal practices (a) being prohibited by law from voting at an election and knowing that he is so prohibited votes at the election; (b) procures any person who is, and whom he knows to be, prohibited from voting at an election to vote at the election; (c) before or during an election, and for the purpose of promoting or procuring the choice of any candidate at the election, knowingly publishes a false statement of the withdrawal of another candidate at the election; (d) before or during an election, and for the purpose of affecting the return of a candidate at the election, knowingly publishes a false statement of fact respecting the personal character or conduct of the candidate; (e) being a candidate at an election withdraws from being a candidate in consideration of a payment or promise of payment; or
Criminal Code Act 1983 106 (f) being a candidate or the agent of a candidate at an election corruptly procures any other person to withdraw from being a candidate at the election in consideration of any payment or promise of payment,