CORRUPT PRACTICES-continued. The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868, 31 & 32 Vict. c. 48, s. 49. Corrupt payment of rates to be punishable as bribery. Sched. 3, Part III. 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, 44 & 45 Vict. c. 40, s. 2. Corrupt payment of registration fee to be punishable as bribery. Sect. 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. CORRUPT PRACTICES-continued. Punishment of candidate found, on election petition, guilty personally of corrupt practices. Sect. 4. Where upon the trial of an election petition respecting an election for a county or borough the election court, by the report made to the Speaker in pursuance of section eleven of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), reports that any corrupt practice other than treating or undue influence has been proved to have been committed in reference to such election by or with the knowledge and consent of any candidate at such election, or that the offence of treating or undue influence has been proved to have been committed in reference to such election by any candidate at such election, that candidate shall not be capable of ever being elected to or sitting in the House of Commons for the said county or borough, and if he has been elected, his election shall be void; and he shall further be subject to the same incapacities as if at the date of the said report he had been convicted on an indictment of a corrupt practice. NOTE. See sect. 11, sub.-sect. 13, of 31 & 32 Vict. c. 125. Punishment of candidate found, on election petition, guilty by agents, of corrupt practices. Sect. 5. Upon the trial of an election petition respecting an election for a county or borough, in which a charge is made of any corrupt practice having been committed in reference to such election, the election court shall report in writing to the Speaker whether any of the candidates at such election has been guilty by his agents of CORRUPT PRACTICES-continued. any corrupt practice in reference to such election; and if the report is that any candidate at such election has been guilty by his agents of any corrupt practice in reference to such election, that candidate shall not be capable of being elected to or sitting in the House of Commons for such county or borough for seven years after the date of the report, and if he has been elected his election shall be void. Punishment of person convicted on indictment of corrupt practices. Sect. 6. (1.) A person who commits any corrupt practice other than personation, or aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 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. (2.) A person who commits the offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of that offence, shall be guilty of felony, and any person convicted thereof on indictment shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, together with hard labour. (3.) A person who is convicted on indictment of any corrupt practice shall (in addition to any punishment as above provided) be not capable during a period of seven years from the date of his conviction: (a.) of being registered as an elector or voting at any election in the United Kingdom CORRUPT PRACTICES-continued. whether it be a parliamentary election or an election for any public office within the meaning of this Act; or Sect. 6 (3.) (b.) of holding any public or judicial office within the meaning of this Act, and if he holds any such office the office shall be vacated. (4.) Any person so convicted of a corrupt practice in reference to any election shall also be incapable of being elected to and of sitting in the House of Commons during the seven years next after the date of his conviction, and if at that date he has been elected to the House of Commons his election shall be vacated from the time of such conviction. annual list of persons found guilty of, sect. 39 (1), p. 27. candidate or election agent making false declaration as to election expenses to be, sect. 33 (7), p. 49. committed by a justice of the peace, barrister, solicitor, or other professional person to be reported to director of public prosecutions, sect. 38 (9), p. 27. how if justice of the peace is reported guilty of, sect. 38 (6), p. 25. inquiries by director of public prosecutions into, sect. 46, p. 115. person not a party to an election or a candidate to be heard persons guilty of, prohibited from voting, sect. 36, p. 22. prosecution for, by director of public prosecutions, sect. 43 (3), p. 60. punishment for, sect. 43 (4), p. 60. trial for by indictment at Central Criminal Court, sect. 50, p. 97. Corrupt and Illegal Practices List, claim to have name omitted therefrom, sect. 39 (4), p. 29. revision of by revising barrister, sect. 39 (5), p. 29. Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts, temporary, Sched. 3, Part I., p. 7; permanent, Part II., p. 124. Corrupt withdrawal from a candidature, sect. 15, p. 75. of prosecutions by director of public prosecutions, sect. 43 (8), of prosecutions on indictment how to be paid, sect. 57 (2), p. 21. of prosecutions, power of election court with regard to, sect. 44 (1), p. 63. of prosecutions, rules and regulations of Supreme Court of Judicature with respect to costs to apply to, sect. 44 (3), p. 64. payable under the order of an election court or otherwise under Act, recovery of, sect. 58 (2), p. 17. Recovery of costs payable by county or borough or by person. Sect. 58. (1.) Where any costs or other sums (not being costs of a prosecution on indictment) are, under an order of an election court, or otherwise under this Act, to be paid by a county or borough, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall pay those costs or sums, and obtain repayment of the amount so paid, in like manner as if such costs and sums were expenses of election commissioners paid by them, and the Election Commissioners Expenses Acts, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 21) and 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 61), shall apply accordingly as if they were herein reenacted and in terms made applicable to the above-mentioned costs and sums. (2.) Where any costs or other sums are, under the order of an election court or otherwise under this Act, to be paid by any person, those costs shall C |