Personation
25.—(1) A person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice if that person commits, or aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of, the offence of personation.
(2) A person (“P”) shall be deemed to be guilty of personation at a Scottish parliamentary election if P—
(a)votes in person or by post as some other person, whether as an elector or as proxy, and whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person; or
(b)votes in person or by post as proxy—
(i)for a person whom P knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing to be dead or to be a fictitious person; or
(ii)when P knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing that P’s appointment as proxy is no longer in force.
(3) For the purposes of this article, a person who has applied for a ballot paper for the purpose of voting in person or who has marked, whether validly or not, and returned a ballot paper issued for the purpose of voting by post, shall be deemed to have voted.