Borough and County Council Elections (excluding Metropolitan Borough Councils) Being Practical Notes Alphabetically Arranged, with an Appendix of Statutes and Forms for the Use of Candidates, Agents, Clerks, Canvassers and Other Workers at Such ElectionsW. Green & sons, 1907 - 95 pages |
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Page 47 - ... any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only; or...
Page 49 - ... and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine...
Page 54 - Bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly: 1. Every Voter who shall, before or during any Election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other Person on his Behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any Money, Gift, Loan, or valuable Consideration, Office, Place, or Employment, for himself or for any other Person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any Election: 2.
Page 33 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 42 - No payment or contract for payment shall, for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate...
Page 38 - The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation by any person, shall be a felony, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years together with hard labour.
Page 45 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said election.
Page 44 - ... has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of the council.
Page 38 - ... applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.
Page 37 - ... any wilful misfeasance or any wilful act or omission in contravention of this Act shall, in addition to any other penalty or liability to which he may be subject, forfeit to any person aggrieved by such misfeasance, act, or omission a penal sum not exceeding one hundred pounds.