Use of ballot provided for Saving of the universities. Commencement and duration of Act. (4.) A tender of security in respect of a candidate may be made IV. In any case to which the fourteenth section of the Ballot Act, 1872, is applicable, it shall be the duty of the returning officer, so far as is practicable, to make use of ballot boxes, fittings, and compartments provided for municipal or school-board elections, and the Court, upon taxation of his accounts, shall have regard to the provisions of this section. V. Nothing in this Act shall apply to an election for any university or combination of universities. VI. On and after the passing of this Act it shall come into operation, and shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and no longer, unless Parliament shall otherwise determine. SCHEDULE. MAXIMUM AMOUNT of SECURITY which may be required by a If at the end of the two hours appointed for the election not more candidates stand nominated than there are vacancies to be filled up, the maximum amount which may be required is one fifth of the maximum according to the above scale.1 No. II. 43 VICT. c. 18. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Voters to the Poll, and to continue the Acts relating to the Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections and the Acts relating to Election Petitions.-[24th March, 1880.] WHEREAS by section thirty-six of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, it is enacted that it shall not be lawful for any 30 & 31 Vict. candidate, or any one on his behalf, at any election for a borough, except certain boroughs therein mentioned, to pay any money on account of the conveyance of any voter to the poll, either to the voter himself or to any other person, and that any such payment shall be deemed to be an illegal payment, and it is expedient to amend such enactment: And whereas the Acts mentioned in the schedule hereto expire on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, it is expedient to continue the same : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: I. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1880. c. 102. Short title. II. The thirty-sixth section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, shall be repealed so far as concerns the conveyance of Repeal of sect. 36 voters within any borough. of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 as to Amendment of III. In all elections whatever of a member or members to serve payment of expenses of in Parliament for any county, division of a county, or for any conveyance of city or burgh, or district of burghs, in Scotland, no inquiry shall voters. be permitted at the time of polling as to the right of any person law as to parto vote, except only as follows; (that is to say,) that the presiding liamentary elecofficer or clerk appointed by the returning officer to attend at a Scotland. polling station shall, if required on behalf of any candidate, put to any voter at the time of his tendering his vote, and not afterwards, the following questions, or either of them: 1. Are you the same person whose name appears as A.B. on the register of voters now in force for the county of of the county of burgh] of [or for the or for the division 1, or for the city [or district of burghs [as the case may be]? 2. Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this 1 Continued by the Expiring Laws Continuance Act. tions in election for the county of the division of the county of or for the city [or burgh] of district of burghs [as the case [or for the or for may be] ? 35 & 36 Vict. c. 33. Continuance of Acts. And if any person shall wilfully make a false answer to either of the questions aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a crime and offence within the meaning of the Ballot Act, 1872. IV. This Act and the Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act, so far as they are unrepealed, shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and any enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner.1 Session and Chapter. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 102. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 61. SCHEDULE. ACTS REFERRED TO. Title. The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854. An Act to amend and continue the Law | The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868. The Corrupt Practices Commission Expenses Act, 1869. The Election Commissioners Expenses Act, 1871. 42 & 43 Vict. c. 75. The Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1879. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 48. No. III. 43 & 44 VICT. c. 6. An Act to amend the Representation of the People (Scotland) WHEREAS questions have arisen upon the occupation of houses in counties required by the sixth section of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows: 1 Continued by the Expiring Laws Continuance Act. I. This Act shall be cited for all purposes as the House Short title. Occupiers in Counties Disqualification Removal (Scotland) Act, 1880. furnished house for II. From and after the passing of this Act every man shall be Letting as entitled to be registered and to vote under the provisions of the said section, notwithstanding that during a part of the qualifying certain periods period, not exceeding four months in the whole, he shall by letting not to disor otherwise have permitted the qualifying premises to be occupied qualify. as a furnished house by some other person. No. IV. 44 & 45 VICT. c. 40. An Act to make further provision in regard to the Registration of WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the manner of voting at the election of members of Parliament for the Universities of Scotland: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: I. This Act shall be cited for all purposes as the Universities Short title. Elections Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1881. 31 & 32 Vict. c. poll. II. So many of the regulations with respect to the polling at Amendment of the elections for the Universities directed to be observed by 48, §§ 38, 39. sections 38 and 39 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868, as are inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed, and in place thereof it is enacted that the following regulations shall be deemed and taken to be a part of the 38th and 39th sections of the said recited Act, and the recited Act shall, on and after the passing of this Act, be read and construed as if the 38th and 39th sections had included the following terms and provisions: 1. If more than one candidate shall be proposed, and a poll Duration of the shall be demanded, the proceedings shall be adjourned for the purpose of taking the poll for not less than twelve or more than twenty clear days, exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays. On the day to which the proceedings have been adjourned as aforesaid for the purpose of taking the poll, the polling shall commence at each University by opening the voting papers, as hereinafter provided, at eight o'clock in the morning, and shall continue for such period, not being less than four or more than six days (exclusive of Sundays), as the returning officer shall determine and announce in the public intimation of the adjournment for the purpose of taking the poll, but no poll shall be kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon. Electors to vote by voting papers only. Registrar of University to issue voting papers and letters of intimation. Return of voting paper. 2. In case of a poll at an election, the votes shall be given by means of voting papers, and no voter shall be allowed to vote in person, or in any other way than is provided by this Act. Each voting paper shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Schedule (A) annexed to this Act. Each voting paper shall have a number printed or written on the back thereof, and shall have attached a counterfoil with the same number printed or written on the face. Before a voting paper is issued to a voter as hereinafter provided, it shall be marked with an official mark, either stamped or perforated, and the number of such voter, as stated on the register of voters, shall be marked on the counterfoil, and a mark shall be placed in the register or any copy thereof used for the purposes of the election against the number of the voter to denote that a voting paper has been issued to him. 3. In case of a poll the registrar of the University, as soon as he conveniently can after the day of demand for a poll, and not later than six clear days thereafter (exclusive of Sundays), shall issue simultaneously through the post a voting paper, in the form or to the effect set forth in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act, to each voter to his address as entered on the register of the general council of the University, who shall appear from said address to be resident within the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands; and such voting paper (the Christian name, surname, designation, and residence of the voter as appearing on the register having previously been filled in by the registrar, or some one having his authority), contained in an envelope marked on the outside as sent by the registrar of the University, shall be accompanied by a letter of intimation in the form or to the effect set forth in Schedule (B) hereunto annexed, and by a stamped envelope addressed to the registrar, for the return of the said voting paper; and each voter, upon receipt of his voting paper, if he desires to vote in the election, shall insert in the voting paper the name of the candidate for whom he votes, and the place and date of signature, and affix his subscription thereto, in the presence of one witness who shall personally know the voter, and who shall attest the fact of such voting paper having been signed by the voter in his presence at the place therein mentioned by signing his name at the foot thereof, and adding his designation and place of residence in the form or to the effect set forth in Schedule (A) hereunto annexed. 4. Thereafter the voting paper, so signed and attested as aforesaid, shall, if the voter desires to vote in the election, be returned through the post to the registrar of the University by whom it was issued, so as to reach him not later |