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Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854, s.3.
Representation of the People Act, 1867, s.49.
(Varied to meet provisions as to property qualification).
Personation defined.
ditto
See Ballot Act, 1872 s.24.
See Municipal Council Ordinance, s.43(1)
(f)
Every voter who shall, before or during any
election, directly or indirectly, by himself 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.
(8) 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 considera-
tion on account of any person having voted or
refrained from voting, or having induced any other
person to vote or refrain from voting at any election.
(h) Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by
himself or by any other person on his behalf,
corruptly pay any rate on behalf of the owner or
occupier of any premises for the purpose of enabling
him or any other person to be registered as a voter,
thereby to influence the vote of such owner or
occupier or other person at any election.
(1) Every candidate or other person who shall, directly
or undirectly, by himself or by any other person on
his behalf, pay any rate on behalf of any voter for
the purpose of inducing him to vote or refrain from
voting at any election.
5.
A person shall, for all purposes of the laws relating
to elections, be deemed to be guilty of the offence of
personation who at any election applies for a ballot paper in
the name of some other person, whether that name be that of
person living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or who having
voted once at an election, applies at the same election for a
ballot paper in his own name,
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