Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

68 Offences in relation to nomination papers, ballot papers and ballot boxes.

If any person—

(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper or delivers to the returning officer or the town clerk, as the case may be, any nomination paper knowing it to be forged; or

(b) signs any nomination paper as candidate or proposer or as a solicitor on behalf of a candidate, knowing any of the statements contained therein to be false; or

(c) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or

(d) without due authority supplies a ballot paper to any person; or

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

(f) fraudulently takes out of the polling station any ballot paper; or

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

(h) fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts;

he shall—

(i) if he is a returning officer or an officer appointed to assist in taking the poll or counting the votes, be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; and

(ii) in any other case be liable on conviction on indictment or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine.