Section 26
Limitation on polling day
No person shall on polling day—
(a)
hold, convene or organize in any place any form of meeting, rally, display or entertainment or give any form of address or lecture whether or not such meeting, rally, display, entertainment, address or lecture is open to or involves members of the public or otherwise;
(b)
furnish or supply any musical instrument or loud speaker to any person with intent that it shall be used by any person in any way or used in or upon any vessel, animal, motor car, truck or other vehicle as, or for the purpose of, political propaganda or use himself or use in or upon any vessel, animal, motor car, truck or other vehicle any such musical instrument or loud speaker;
(c)
open or establish or maintain an office or a booth within the constituency in which a candidate seeks election for any purpose connected with an election other than the offices opened or established or maintained pursuant to subsection 24b(2) or committee-room hired pursuant to paragraph 14(1)(b);
(d)
use any dwelling house, shop house, hut, hall or any premises as an office or a centre of any political party in the constituency;
(e)
within a distance of fifty metres from the limits of any polling station—
(i)
endeavour to establish the identity of any person entering a polling station;
(ii)
check on any list the name of any person entering or leaving a polling station;
(iii)
solicit or persuade or attempt to persuade any person to abstain from voting at the election, or to vote or to abstain from voting for any candidate at the election;
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(iv)
wait or loiter except for the purpose of gaining entry to the polling station to cast his vote but nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the proper officer or any person authorized by the proper officer from carrying out his duties in relation to the conduct of an election;
(f)
on behalf of any candidate, canvass for the votes of electors in any constituency for or against any candidate or political party at an election by whatever means including visiting electors at their homes or places of work or interviewing members of the public; or
(g)
within a distance of fifty metres from the limits of any polling station and in a polling station wear, hold or carry any form or type of clothing, head covering, ornament, rosette, water bottle or umbrella on which the name of a candidate or the name, emblem or symbol of any political party is printed or imprinted.
(2)
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(3)
An offence under subsection (1) shall be a seizable offence within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Booth to be provided by Election Commission 26a. (1) The Election Commission shall, on polling day, provide such number of booths situated at such places as it thinks necessary for the purpose of assisting electors to ascertain their electoral numbers in the electoral roll.
(2)
The election agent of a candidate shall appoint not more than four persons to act as booth observers on behalf of the candidate, and shall, before the opening of the poll inform the presiding officer at each polling station in writing of the name and address of the booth observers appointed to be present at the booths in respect of the polling station.
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(3)
Every booth observer of a candidate appointed under subsection (2) shall be present at the booth for at least two hours and his replacement shall only be admitted to the booth on the expiration of the two-hour period.