THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1868. (31st and 32nd Victoriæ, cap. 48. sec. 49). Corrupt Payment of Rates to be Punishable as Bribery. Any person, either directly or indirectly, corruptly paying any rate on behalf, of any ratepayer for the purpose of enabling him to be registered as a voter, thereby to influence his vote at any future election, and any candidate or other person, either directly or indirectly, paying any rate on behalf of any voter for the purpose of inducing him to vote or refrain from voting, shall be guilty of bribery, and be punishable accordingly; and any person on whose behalf and with whose privity any such payment as in this section mentioned is made shall also be guilty of bribery, and punishable accordingly. THE UNIVERSITIES ELECTIONS AMENDMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1881. (44th and 45th Victoriæ, cap. 40. sec. 2.) Corrupt Payment of Registration Fee to be Punishable as Bribery. 17. Any person, either directly or indirectly, corruptly paying any fee for the purpose of enabling any person to be registered as a member of the general council, and thereby to influence his vote at any future election, and any candidate or other person, either directly or indirectly, paying such fee on behalf of any person for the purpose of inducing him to vote or to refrain from voting, shall be guilty of bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly; and any person on whose behalf and with whose privity any such payment as in this section mentioned is made, shall also be guilty of bribery, and punishable accordingly. THE BALLOT ACT, 1872. (35th and 36th Victoriæ cap. 33. sec. 24.) Personation Defined. A person shall for all purposes of the laws relating to parliamentary and municipal elections be deemed to be guilty of the offence of personation who, at an election for a county or borough, or at a municipal election, 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. FIFTH SCHEDULE. Enactments Repealed. NOTE.-Portions of Acts which have already been specifically repealed are in some instances included in the repeal in this Schedule in order to preclude henceforth the necessity of looking back to previous Acts A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation. Extent of Repeal. Section thirty-six. The whole Act except section three. Section eighty-two Section one. "and any person so offending" to "with full costs of suit." Section three, from "and any person so offending' to the end of the section. Section four. Section five. Section six. Section seven, from "and all payments" to the end of the section. Section nine, section fourteen, section twenty three, section thirty six, section thirty-eight from "and the words personal expenses" to the end of the section and section thirty-nine and Schedule A. Section eighteen, from "the power of dividing their county" to the end of the section. So much of section three as relates to the definitions of "candidate." Section sixteen. Section thirty-three. Section thirty six. Section forty one,from "but according to the same principles" to "the High Court of Chancery. Section forty-three. Section forty-six. Section forty-seven. Section fifty-eight, from "The prin to ciples" down "in the court of session," being sub section sixteen. |