The Conduct of Parliamentary Elections in England |
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According to law appointed Ballot Act Ballot Act 1872 ballot papers bribery candidate's canvassing clubs committee room Conservative constituency corrupt and illegal corrupt practice corruptly counting clerks county or borough court declaration didate duty elec election agent election campaign election expenses election petition fact give guilty H. J. Houston hand hour House of Commons House of Lords ibid illegal practice issued judges Labour London Lord mark matter means meeting ment modern election Modern Electioneering Practice nomination paper notice O'M and H Ostrogorski paid Parliament parliamentary borough parliamentary election payment peers person petitioner pointed political polling clerks polling day polling district polling station present presiding officer prospective candidate proxy question recent bye-election refrain from voting registered result returning officer speaker stituency summons tion treating undue influence university constituency usually Vict voters workers writ of summons writer writs
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Page 149 - ... person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 141 - ... or by any other Person on his Behalf, receive, agree, or contract for 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 141 - Every voter who shall before or during any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person or his behalf, receive, agree, or contract for 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; 7.
Page 181 - ... and if the judges differ as to whether the member whose return or election is complained of was duly returned or elected they shall certify that difference, and the member shall be deemed to be duly elected or returned ; and if the judges determine that such member was not duly elected or returned, but differ as to the rest of the determination, they shall certify that difference, and the election shall be deemed to be void ; and if the judges differ as to the subject of a report to the Speaker,...
Page 177 - ... and within the prescribed time after the notice is given any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates may apply to the Court or judge, in and at the prescribed manner, time, and place, to be substituted as a petitioner.
Page 177 - A respondent who has given the prescribed notice that he does not intend to oppose the petition shall not be allowed to appear or act as a party against such petition in any proceedings thereon, and shall not sit or vote in the House of Commons...
Page 141 - 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 181 - Order under his hand, compel the attendance of any person, as a witness, who appears to him to have been concerned in the election to which the petition refers, and any person refusing to obey such Order shall be guilty of contempt of Court. The...
Page 172 - Act, if it appears to the tribunal having cognizance of the question that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the body of this Act, and that such non-compliance or mistake did not affect the result of the election.
Page 95 - Any premises where any intoxicating liquor is sold, or is supplied to members of a club, society, or association other than a permanent political club...