39.-(1) Every person who-
(a) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to the Returning Officer any nomination paper knowing the same to be forged; or
(b) forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the stamp, perforation or initial on the cover of any booklet of ballot papers; or
(c) without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person; or
(d) sells or offers to sell any ballot paper to any person or purchases or offers to purchase any ballot paper from any person; or
(e) not being a person entitled under this Law to be in possession of any ballot paper or any booklet of ballot papers, the cover of which has been stamped, perforated or initialled in accordance with this Law, has any ballot paper or such booklet in his possession; or
(f) puts into any ballot box anything other than the booklet of ballot papers, the cover of which has been stamped, perforated or initialled, which such person is authorized by law to put in; or
(g) without due authority takes out of the polling station any ballot paper or any booklet of ballot papers, the cover of which has been stamped, perforated or initialled, or is found in possession of any ballot paper or such booklet outside a polling station; or
(h) without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers in use or intended to be used for the purposes of an election; or
(i) without due authority prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding ,450 or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(2) Any person convicted of an offence under subsection (1) shall become incapable for a period of seven years from the date of his conviction of being registered as an elector or of voting at any election under this Law or any Law amending or replacing this Law, or any Law governing elections of members of the House of Representatives or Communal Chambers of the Republic for the time being in force.