ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (b) any person’s qualification or entitlement to be enrolled on a voters roll is determined as at or as from a particular date; the Commission may direct that, in relation to all councils or any particular council or class of councils, the thing is to be done by a different date or, as the case may be, that the qualification or entitlement is to be determined as at or as from a different date, and the provisions of this Part shall be construed in accordance with any such direction. (2) The Commission shall give notice of any direction in terms of subsection (1) in the Gazette and in a newspaper. 133 Application of provisions of this Act to local authority elections Subject to this Part, the provisions of this Act relating to the election of members of Parliament shall apply, with any changes that may be necessary, to elections to which this Part applies as if any references therein to a constituency centre or a constituency elections officer were references to a ward centre or a ward elections officer respectively. [Section amended by s. 32 of Act No. 3 of 2012] PART XVIIIA INTIMIDATORY PRACTICES [Part inserted by s. 71 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 133A Meaning of “intimidation” For the purposes of this Part, a person shall be regarded as having done or attempted to do something through intimidation if he or she achieves or attempts to achieve an object through any of the following methods⎯ (a) inflicting or threatening to inflict bodily injury upon a person; or (b) abducting a person or detaining a person against his or her will; or (c) causing or threatening to cause unlawful damage to a person’s property; or (d) withholding or threatening to withhold from a person any assistance or benefit to which that person is legally entitled; or (d1) persuading or attempting to persuade another person that he or she can or will be able to discover for whom that other person cast his or her vote in an election; or [Paragraph inserted by s. 27 of Act No. 6 of 2018] (e) illegally doing or threatening to do anything to the disadvantage of a person. [Section inserted by s. 71 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 133B Intimidation A person who, through intimidation⎯ (a) compels or attempts to compel a person to sign or refrain from signing a nomination paper; or (b) prevents or attempts to prevent a candidate from lodging a nomination paper with a constituency elections officer; or (c) compels or attempts to compel a person or persons generally⎯ (i) to vote for a political party or candidate; or (ii) not to vote; or (d) compels or attempts to compel a person or persons generally to attend or participate in any political meeting, march, demonstration or other political event; shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Section inserted by s. 71 of Act No. 17 of 2007] 115