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Section 29: Any person who-

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(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to any person or authority to whom nomination papers are required, under the provisions of any regulations made under section 25 of this Ordinance, to be delivered, any nomination paper knowing the same to be forged; or (b) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or (c) without due authority, supplies any ballot paper to any person; or (d) fraudulently puts into any ballot box any paper other ~han the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put m; or (e) fraudulently takes out of any place of voting or place of election any ballot paper; or {f) without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of bal1ot papers then in use for the purposes of the election; shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. Any attempt to commit an offence specified in this section shall be punishable in the manner in which the offence itself is punishable.

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