The Crofting Commission (Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Elections: false information in nomination papers etc.

60.—(1) A person commits an offence if he or she causes or permits to be included in a document delivered or otherwise furnished to the returning officer for use in connection with the election—

(a) a statement of the name or home address of a candidate at the election which he or she knows to be false in any particular; or

(b) anything which purports to be the signature of an elector who nominates such a candidate but which he or she knows—

(i) was not written by the elector by whom it purports to have been written; or

(ii) if written by that elector, was not written by the elector for the purpose of nominating that candidate.

(2) A person commits an offence if he or she makes in any document in which that person gives consent to his or her nomination as a candidate at the election a statement which that person knows to be false in any particular as to—

(a) his or her date of birth; or

(b) his or her qualification for being elected at the election.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a statement as to a candidate’s qualification is a statement—

(a) that he or she is qualified for being elected;

(b) that he or she will be qualified for being elected; or

(c) that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief he or she is not disqualified for being elected.