The Parliamentary Elections (corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1883. Ed., with an Introduction and Full Explanatory and Legal NotesW. Maxwell & son, 1883 - 251 pages |
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... exceeding one year , or to be fined any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds . ment of corrupt practices . ( 2. ) A person who commits the offence of personation , or of aiding , abetting , counselling , or procuring the commission of ...
... exceeding one year , or to be fined any sum not exceeding two hundred pounds . ment of corrupt practices . ( 2. ) A person who commits the offence of personation , or of aiding , abetting , counselling , or procuring the commission of ...
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... exceeding one hundred pounds and be incapable during a period of five years from the date of his conviction of being registered as an elector or voting at any election ( whether it be a par- liamentary election or an election for a ...
... exceeding one hundred pounds and be incapable during a period of five years from the date of his conviction of being registered as an elector or voting at any election ( whether it be a par- liamentary election or an election for a ...
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... exceeding one hundred pounds . 19. The provisions of this Act prohibiting certain payments and contracts for payments , and the payment of any sum , and the incurring of any expense in excess of a certain maximum , shall not affect the ...
... exceeding one hundred pounds . 19. The provisions of this Act prohibiting certain payments and contracts for payments , and the payment of any sum , and the incurring of any expense in excess of a certain maximum , shall not affect the ...
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... exceeding £ 5 for every copy so printed . The above enactment does not apply to Ireland , and there seems to be no similar enactment in force there . An offence under this section , though nominally an illegal practice , only involves ...
... exceeding £ 5 for every copy so printed . The above enactment does not apply to Ireland , and there seems to be no similar enactment in force there . An offence under this section , though nominally an illegal practice , only involves ...
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... exceeding one hundred pounds . ( 2. ) A candidate or an election agent of a candidate who is personally guilty of an offence of illegal payment , employment , or hiring , shall be guilty of an illegal practice . ment , or hiring . § 22 ...
... exceeding one hundred pounds . ( 2. ) A candidate or an election agent of a candidate who is personally guilty of an offence of illegal payment , employment , or hiring , shall be guilty of an illegal practice . ment , or hiring . § 22 ...
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Page 182 - 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 174 - ... myself"] or any other person for the purpose of defraying any expenses incurred on my behalf on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said election.
Page 186 - 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.
Page 182 - Every person who shall, upon or in consequence of any such gift...
Page 144 - Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed as from the commencement of this Act to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned, provided that this repeal or the expiration of any enactment not continued by this Act shall not revive any enactment which at the commencement of this...
Page 14 - ... for the purpose of corruptly influencing such person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote...
Page 40 - No payment or contract for payment shall, for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate...
Page 182 - ... any voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid on account of any voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election...
Page 42 - That the offences mentioned in the said report were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited character: and (d.) That in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt or illegal practice on the part of such candidate and of his agents...
Page 204 - Whether any corrupt Practice has or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the Knowledge and Consent of any Candidate at such Election, and the Nature of such corrupt Practice...