Regulation 57 Offences relating to applications for absent and proxy votes

engages in an act specified in paragraph (2) at an election; and

intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for himself or herself or another a gain of a vote to which he or she or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.

applying for an absent or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);

otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for an absent or proxy vote;

inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to an absent or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the elector;

causing a communication relating to an absent or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.