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great a proportion of the whole as to impede the
transaction of business, or in any other case in which
it appears to him that it is in the interests of the
inhabitants of the Municipality or any part thereof that
the diability should be removed.
(9) The Council may by standing orders provide for
the exclusion of a councillor from a meeting of the
Council whilst any contract, proposed contract or other
matter in which he has such an interest as aforesaid is
under consideration.
Failure of returning officers, &c. to conduct election.
8.79
(In U.K. £100)
Offences in relation
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to nomination papers.
8.80
(In U.K. £20)
Offences in relation to ballot papers and ballot boxes.
3.81
Offences.
40. If a person whose duty it is to act as
returning officer at, or to take part in the conduct of,
an election under this Ordinance neglects or refuses to
conduct the election, or to declare the result of, or to
take part in the conduct of, the election, as required by
this Ordinance or by any rules made thereunder, he shall
for every such offence be liable on sumary conviction to
a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars:
Provided that a person shall not be liable to
conviction under this section, unless the information has
been laid within three months from the date of the
commission of the offence.
41. If any person fraudulently defaces or so attempts
to deface, or fraudulently destroys or so attempts to
destroy, any nomination paper, he shall be liable, on
summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or to both such imprisonment and fine.
If any person
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(a) fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys
any ballot paper or the official mark on any
ballot paper; or
(6) without due authority supplies a ballot paper
to any person; or
(23)