Maintenance of order at polling stations

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), during the hours when the poll is open upon election days no person shall assemble or congregate within one hundred yards of any building in which is situate any polling station. (2) This section shall not apply– (a) to any voters who are waiting to poll their votes at such polling station and who obey any instructions which may be given by the presiding officer or any constable for the purpose of forming a queue with other electors also so waiting; or (b) to any person who may under the provisions of this Act lawfully enter or remain in such (3) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section commits an offence against this section and is liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine REVISED EDITION 2018 36 not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months, or to both such fine and period of imprisonment.