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Treating defined.
Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, s.1.
6. Every person who shall, before, during or after
any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any
other person, corruptly give or provide, or pay wholly or
in part the expense of giving or providing any meat, drink,
entertainment, or provision to or for any person for the
purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other
person to give or refrain from giving his vote at the election,
or on account of such person or any other person having voted
or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain
from voting at such election, shall be guilty of treating.
And every voter who corruptly accepta or takes any such
meat, drink, entertainment, or provision, shall also be guilty
of treating.
Undue influence defined.
Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act, 1883, 8.2.
7. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by
himself or by any other person on his behalf, make use of or
threaten to make use of any force, violence, or restraint, or
inflict or threaten to inflict, by himself or by any other
person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or
loss 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 who shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent
device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of
the franchise of any voter, or shall thereby compel, induce,
or prevail upon any elector either to give or to refrain from
giving his vote at any election shall be guilty of undue
influence.
Incapacity of
candidate
reported guilty of corrupt
practice.
8.3
8.
(1) Where upon the trial of an election petition
it is found by the certificate or report of the Court made in
pursuance of section one hundred and fifty one of the Municipal
Council Ordinance, 194, that any corrupt practice, other than
unicipal Council rdinance, 194
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