The Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. C. 33), Municipal Elections Act, 1875, and Parliamentary Elections (returning Officers) Act, 1875: With Appendix Containing Corrupt Practices at Municipal Elections Act, 1872, and Notes and IndexKnight, 1875 - 152 Seiten |
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Seite 61 - purpose of corruptly influencing such person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at such election, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be deemed guilty of the offence of treating.
Seite 64 - Any right or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under any enactment hereby repealed; or (c.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or (¡/.) Any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, liability,
Seite 60 - 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 sucli money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election, or who shall knowingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money
Seite 60 - money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election, or who shall knowingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money to any person in discharge or repayment of any money wholly or in part expended in bribery at any election.
Seite 132 - Any general rules made in pursuance of this section shall be laid before Parliament within three weeks after they are made, if Parliament be then sitting, and if Parliament be not then sitting, within three weeks after the beginning of the then next session of Parliament : (3.) The duties to be performed by the prescribed officer under
Seite 60 - Every person who shall, after any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, receive any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted, or refrained from voting, or having induced any other person to vote, or to refrain from voting, at any election. The 30 & 31 Viet.,
Seite 15 - 43. Any ballot paper which has not 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 number printed on the back is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, is to be void and not counted
Seite 24 - 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.
Seite 38 - who is guilty of any wilful misfeasance or any wilful act or omission in contravention of this Act shall, in addition to any other penalty or liability to which he may be subject, forfeit to any person aggrieved by such misfeasance, act, or omission, a penal sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, (a)
Seite 37 - You do swear [ or affirm, as the case may be], That you are the same person whose name appears as AB on the register of voters now in force for the county of [or for the riding, parts, or division of the county of ], or for the city [or borough of] [as the case may