The Parliamentary Elections Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Acts, 1854 to 1883: With Explanatory Notes ...Waterlow Bros. & Layton, 1884 - 439 pages |
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... costs of election petition Miscellaneous . 45. Inquiry by Director of public prosecutions into alleged corrupt or illegal practices ... 46. Removal of incapacity on proof that it was procured by perjury ... ... ... 47. Amendment of law ...
... costs of election petition Miscellaneous . 45. Inquiry by Director of public prosecutions into alleged corrupt or illegal practices ... 46. Removal of incapacity on proof that it was procured by perjury ... ... ... 47. Amendment of law ...
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... costs , if corrupt practices have extensively prevailed ( s . 44 ) . This practice is , after all , but a return to ... cost of returning their members to Parliament . Members serve their constituents , and their duties are sufficiently ...
... costs , if corrupt practices have extensively prevailed ( s . 44 ) . This practice is , after all , but a return to ... cost of returning their members to Parliament . Members serve their constituents , and their duties are sufficiently ...
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... cost , has certainly much to recommend it . Until , however , public opinion is ripe for that step , the surest ally of a measure such as the present will probably be found in the extinction of small , separate boroughs , and the ...
... cost , has certainly much to recommend it . Until , however , public opinion is ripe for that step , the surest ally of a measure such as the present will probably be found in the extinction of small , separate boroughs , and the ...
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... costs of suit to such person as shall sue for same . £ 100 for every day he so sits or votes to any person suing for same . TABLE OF OFFENCES , PUNISHMENTS OFFENCES . PUNISHMENTS . D. PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT , 1883 . 13.
... costs of suit to such person as shall sue for same . £ 100 for every day he so sits or votes to any person suing for same . TABLE OF OFFENCES , PUNISHMENTS OFFENCES . PUNISHMENTS . D. PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT , 1883 . 13.
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... costs of suit , to aggrieved party . NOTE.It is to be observed ( 1. ) That general corruption , from whatever person it proceeds , and whether in the form of treating , bribery or intimidation , ipso facto avoids an election by the ...
... costs of suit , to aggrieved party . NOTE.It is to be observed ( 1. ) That general corruption , from whatever person it proceeds , and whether in the form of treating , bribery or intimidation , ipso facto avoids an election by the ...
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Page 69 - ... to procure any Money, or valuable Consideration, to or for any Voter, or to or for any Person on Behalf of any Voter, or to or for any other Person in order to induce any Voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such Act as aforesaid, on account of such Voter having voted or refrained from voting at any Election : 2.
Page 93 - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 5. Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 44 - ... upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or...
Page 97 - ... 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 312 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said nomination or election.
Page 372 - No person shall directly or indirectly induce any voter to display his ballot paper after he shall have marked the same, so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for or against whom he has so marked his vote.
Page 275 - Expenses Acts, 1869 and 1871, shall apply accordingly as if they were herein re-enacted, and in terms made applicable to the above-mentioned costs and sums.
Page 375 - Act, or by reason of any irregularity, if it appears to the tribunal having cognizance of the question that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in this Act, and that such non-compliance or mistake or irregularity did not affect the result of the election.
Page 429 - Any ballot paper which has not on its back the official mark, or on which votes are given to more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for, or on which anything, except the said number on the back, is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, shall be void and not counted.
Page 391 - The returning officer, while counting and recording the number of ballot papers and counting the votes, shall keep the ballot papers with their faces upwards, and take all proper precautions for preventing any person from seeing the numbers printed on the backs of such papers.