ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ [Section inserted by s. 9 of Act No. 3 of 2012 and by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] PART VIII OFFENCES IN RELATION TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS 37 Offences in relation to registration of voters (1) Any person who— (a) receives a claim form and without just cause fails or neglects to do anything in connection with such claim form which he or she is required by this Act to do; or (b) having obtained possession of a claim form signed by any other person for the purpose of being delivered to the voter registration officer, fails so to deliver it within a period of seven days calculated from the day on which he or she obtained possession thereof; [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 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 twentytwo— (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. 45