Section 62B Scottish local government elections: offences relating to applications for postal and proxy votesF1F2

engages in any of the acts specified in subsection (3) below at the election; and

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

applying for a postal 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 a postal or proxy vote;

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

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