Clause 59

Subject to subsection (4), no badge, symbol, rosette, favour, set of colours, flag, advertisement, handbill, placard or poster or any replica of a voting paper shall be worn, used, carried or displayed by any person or on any motor-car, truck or other vehicle as political propaganda on polling day.

Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person offending in his view against any of the provisions of this section and take him before a Magistrate’s Court to be dealt with according to law.

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

Nothing in this section shall preclude a candidate wearing on his person a replica of the symbol allotted to him under section 16.