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Electoral Act 2017
210BPhotographing and recording election officials outside voting centres or ballot counting places
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#### 210B Photographing and recording election officials outside voting centres or ballot counting places
210B Photographing and recording election officials outside voting centres or ballot counting places
> > (1) A person must not, outside a voting centre or ballot counting place, take a photograph or make an audio or video recording of an election official or scrutineer if the photographing or recording is reasonably likely to cause the official or scrutineer to be intimidated or harassed.
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> > (2) A person must not publish or distribute a photograph or an audio or video recording made in the course of committing an offence against subsection (1).
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> **s 210B:** Ins 2026 No 6, Sch 1\[91\].