(1) Every person who –

(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper or delivers to the Commissioner any nomination paper knowing the same to be forged; or

(b) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any voting document or ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or

(c) without due authority supplies any voting document or ballot paper to any person; or

(d) forges or counterfeits or is in unlawful possession of any stamp or seal used by the Chief Electoral Commissioner or the Election Commissioners or the Assistant Commissioners; or

(e) is in unlawful possession of any voting document or ballot paper; or

(f) fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in; or

(g) fraudulently takes out of the polling place any ballot paper; or

(h) without due authority, destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers then in use for the purpose of the election; or

(i) accepts a voting document, whether belonging to him or to any other person, when he is aware that he or such other person to whom the voting document refers has lost his right to vote; or

(j) votes when he knows that he has lost the right to vote;

(k) without authorisation of the Commission takes any photographic or video image at a polling place on any polling day,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) not exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (1,164.69) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(2) Every person who aids or abets the commission of an offence under this article or attempts to commit any such offence shall be liable, on conviction, to the punishment provided for the offence.