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Referendum Act (No. 7 of 1981) - Sect 26

Power to require voter to make declaration

26.
(1) presiding officer at any polling station may in his discretion, and, if required so to do by a polling observer, shall, require any voter, before he is given a ballot paper, to make and subscribe all or any of the declarations in forms C, D, E and F set out in the Third Schedule to this Act Every such declaration shall be exempt from stamp duty.
(2) If any person refuses to make any such declaration, the presiding officer may refuse to give him a ballot paper,
(3) If any person willfully makes a false statement in any such declaration, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months.


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