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Article 162
 

1. Persons who disturb the regular functioning of polling stations with insults, threats or acts of violence, leading to disturbance, will be punished with coercive detention and a fine between PTE 500 and PTE 20,000.


2. Persons who enter the polling stations during the election operations without the right to do so and who refuse to leave after being told to by the chairman of the polling station will be punished with coercive detention up to three months and a fine between PTE 500 and PTE 5,000.


3. Persons who enter the polling stations carrying a weapon will have the weapon immediately apprehended and will be punished with coercive detention up to six months and a fine between PTE 500 and PTE 10,000.