107. A person shall be guilty of an offence if the person—

(a) wilfully and without lawful authority, takes, destroys, conceals, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers, or any packet of papers or documents of any kind then in use or intended to be used for the purposes of a European election, or any ballot paper account or marked copy of a register of European electors prepared or used for the purposes of the election, or any unused ballot paper, or

(b) maliciously destroys, tears, or defaces a ballot paper, or

(c) forges or counterfeits a ballot paper or the official mark on a ballot paper, or

(d) without lawful authority, supplies a ballot paper to any person, or

(e) fraudulently puts into a ballot box any paper other than the ballot paper which the person is authorised by law to put in it, or

(f) without lawful authority takes a ballot paper out of a polling station, or

(g) forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper or any replacement candidates list F118[…] or any certificate of political affiliation or of European political affiliation, or any authorisation under rule 60 or 61 or any official envelope or form of declaration of identity or form of receipt used in connection with special voting or voting by post, or any other form or document used at an election, or

(h) produces to the returning officer a nomination paper or replacement candidates list, knowing the same to be forged, or

(i) counterfeits the official mark, or

(j) without lawful authority, removes, destroys or damages any instrument for stamping the official mark on ballot papers or makes or is in possession of any imitation or counterfeit of any such instrument.