Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 169

(1) The commission may give a person notice that a complaint made by the person under section 168 will not be investigated, or further investigated, by the commission because it appears—

(a) to concern a frivolous matter; or

(b) to have been made vexatiously.

(2) The notice must advise the person that if the person again makes the same or substantially the same complaint to the commission the person commits an offence punishable by a fine of 85 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment or both.

(3) If, after receiving a notice mentioned in subsection (2), the person makes the same or substantially the same complaint to the commission again, the person commits an offence.

Maximum penalty—85 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment.

(4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (3) for the person to prove that the complaint did not concern a frivolous matter and was not made vexatiously.

(5) In this section—

make a complaint to the commission includes cause a complaint to be referred to the commission.