The Parliamentary Elections Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Acts, 1854 to 1883: With Explanatory Notes ... |
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... allowed ; and any sum so allowed may be paid by the candidate or his election agent , as if within the time limited ( s . 29 ) . remuneration officers ' So far as circumstances admit , the 18 CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT , 1883 .
... allowed ; and any sum so allowed may be paid by the candidate or his election agent , as if within the time limited ( s . 29 ) . remuneration officers ' So far as circumstances admit , the 18 CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT , 1883 .
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... allowed the point to be reserved for the Court of Common Pleas . 66 Offer , promise , or endeavour . " - Under Offer , or the present Act the mere offer of a bribe , whether in the shape of money or valuable consideration , or of any ...
... allowed the point to be reserved for the Court of Common Pleas . 66 Offer , promise , or endeavour . " - Under Offer , or the present Act the mere offer of a bribe , whether in the shape of money or valuable consideration , or of any ...
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... allowed ( Oldham , 1 0. & H. 164-166 ; cp . Wigan , ib . 190 ) . Similarly , as to payments for attendance at Revising Barrister's Courts , Lord Blackburn , in the Hastings case ( ib . 219 ) , said : " The law has never yet said that to ...
... allowed ( Oldham , 1 0. & H. 164-166 ; cp . Wigan , ib . 190 ) . Similarly , as to payments for attendance at Revising Barrister's Courts , Lord Blackburn , in the Hastings case ( ib . 219 ) , said : " The law has never yet said that to ...
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... allowed to be absent , without loss of wages , for an amply sufficient time , received , a fortnight after the election , 10s . each at one of the sitting member's committee rooms ( Min . 5 May , 1866 ) . The amount of the bribe is ...
... allowed to be absent , without loss of wages , for an amply sufficient time , received , a fortnight after the election , 10s . each at one of the sitting member's committee rooms ( Min . 5 May , 1866 ) . The amount of the bribe is ...
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... have voted , " in the above section , must be taken to have been impliedly repealed . But it may of course happen that the voter insists on his right to vote , Sec . 3 . Questions allowed to be put to PERSONATION , HOW DEALT WITH . 105.
... have voted , " in the above section , must be taken to have been impliedly repealed . But it may of course happen that the voter insists on his right to vote , Sec . 3 . Questions allowed to be put to PERSONATION , HOW DEALT WITH . 105.
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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.