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the offence of treating and undue influence and illegal
practice, or of any of such offences, in relation to auch
election, and the Court further reports that the candidate
has proved to the Court
(a) that no corrupt
or illegal practice was
committed at such election by the candidate or
with his knowledge and consent, and the offences
mentioned in the said report were committed
without the sanction or connivance of such
candidate; and
(b) that all reasonable means for preventing the
caraission of corrupt and illegal practices at
such election were taken by and on behalf of the
candidate; and
(c) that the offences mentioned in the said report
were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited
character; and
(a) that in all other respects the election was free
fran any corrupt or illegal practice on the part
of the candidate and of his agents;
then the election of such candidate shall not, by reason of
the offences mentioned in such report, be void, nor shall
the candidate be subject to any incapacity under this
Ordinance or any other enactment.
(a)
24. There, on application made, it is shown to the
Court by such evidence as scens to the Court sufficient
that any act or omission of a candidate at an
election, or of any agent or other person,
would, by reason of being in contravention of
any of the provisions of this Urdinance, be,
but for this section, an illegal practice,
payment, employment or hiring; and
(b) that such act or omission arose from inadvertance
or from accidental miscalculation or from some
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