ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (b) having obtained possession of a claim form signed by any other person for the purpose of being delivered to the constituency registrar, fails so to deliver it within a period of seven days calculated from the day on which he or she obtained possession thereof; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four. (2) Any person who— (a) makes a false statement of fact in any claim or application for registration knowing the statement to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true; or (b) after demand made of him or her in terms of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of section twenty-two— (i) without just cause, fails to give any such information as he or she possesses or unreasonably delays in giving the same; or (ii) furnishes information which he or she knows to be false or does not know or believe to be true; or (c) fails to comply with any requirement made in terms of section twenty-two; or (d) in the name of any other person, whether living, dead or fictitious, signs a claim form to have such other person registered as a voter; or (e) transmits or is concerned in transmitting to any person as genuine a declaration false in any material particular, knowing the same to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true; or (f) by himself or herself or any other person procures the registration of himself or herself or any other person on a voters roll for a constituency, knowing that he or she or such other person is not entitled to be registered on that voters roll or is already registered thereon; or (g) by himself or herself or any other person procures the registration of a fictitious person; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (3) Any person who by⎯ (a) by intimidation, fraud or misrepresentation causes or induces or attempts to cause or induce any person or any group of persons generally to refrain from registering or taking steps to register as a voter or voters, as the case may be; or (b) takes, destroys or damages any document belonging or relating to another person in order to prevent the registration of that person as a voter; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. - 31 -