(1) Every election officer, candidate or agent, in attendance at a polling station shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting in such station, and shall not communicate except for some purpose authorised by law, to any person any information as to the name or number on any list of electors, of any elector who has or has not applied for a ballot paper or voted at that station and no person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector when marking his or her vote or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station any information as to the candidate for whom any elector in such station is about to vote or has voted.
(2) Every election officer, candidate or agent in attendance at the counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting and shall not communicate or attempt to communicate any information obtained at such counting as to the candidate or candidates for whom any vote is given in any particular ballot paper.
(3) A person shall not, directly or indirectly, induce any voter to display his or her ballot paper after he or she has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for whom or against whose name he or she has marked his or her vote.
(4) A person who acts in contravention of this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500 or to imprisonment for 6 months.