Clause 32

Every officer, clerk, interpreter, and any other person authorized to attend at a polling station, or at the counting of the votes, shall, before so attending, take an oath of secrecy.

The Superintendent shall have power to administer the oath required to be taken under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.

Every officer, clerk, interpreter and any other person in attendance at a polling station shall maintain, and aid in maintaining, the secrecy of the voting in such polling station, and shall not communicate save for some purpose authorized by law, before the voting is closed, to any person any information as to the name or number on the register of electors of any elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at such station, or as to the official mark, but the total number of voters who have voted at any polling station, at any time before the voting is closed, may, in the discretion of the presiding officer, be divulged to any polling agent.

No such officer, clerk, interpreter and no person whosoever shall attempt to obtain in the polling station information as to how any voter in such polling station is about to vote or has voted, or communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in any polling station.

Every officer, clerk, interpreter and counting agent in attendance at the counting of the votes shall maintain, and aid in maintaining, the secrecy of the voting, and shall not attempt to ascertain at such counting the number on the back of any ballot paper or communicate to any person any information obtained at such counting as to how any vote is given by any particular ballot paper.

No person, except a presiding officer acting for a purpose authorized by this Ordinance or a person authorized by the presiding officer and acting for such purpose as aforesaid, shall communicate or attempt to communicate with any voter after such voter has received a ballot paper and before he has placed the same in a ballot box.

Every person who acts in contravention of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.