The Conduct and Management of Parliamentary Elections: A Practical Manual |
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Popular passages
Page 187 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said election.
Page 183 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, make use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten the infliction, by himself, or by or through any other person, of any injury, damage, harm or loss...
Page 206 - ... shall be in the form set forth in the second schedule to this act, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and shall be capable of being folded up.
Page 188 - A person guilty of an illegal practice, whether under the foregoing sections or under the provisions hereinafter contained in this Act, shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and be incapable during a period of five years from the date of his conviction of being registered as an elector or voting at any election...
Page 222 - ... false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of such candidate shall be guilty of an illegal practice...
Page 188 - Whether any corrupt Practice has or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the Knowledge and Consent of any Candidate at such Election, and the Nature of such corrupt Practice...
Page 201 - All expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at an election, which are incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election...
Page 185 - ... and on conviction on indictment shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding one year, or to be fined any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds.
Page 208 - ... (2) The return so transmitted to the returning officer shall be accompanied by a declaration made by the election agent before a justice of the peace, in the form in the Second Schedule to this Act (which declaration is in this Act referred to as a declaration respecting election expenses).
Page 196 - ... that a candidate at such election has been guilty by his agents of the offence of treating and undue influence, and illegal practice, or of any of such offences, in reference to such election, and the election court further report -that the candidate has proved to the court : (a.) That no corrupt or illegal practice was committed at such election bj...