other reasonable cause of a like nature, and

in any case did not arise from want of good

faith; and

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(c) that such notice (if any) of the application has

been given in the Municipality as to the Court

seems fit,

and under the circumstances it seems to the Court to be just

that the said candidate, agent and person, or any of them,

should not be subject to any of the consequences under this

Ordinance of the said act or omission, the Court may make

an order allowing such act or omission to be an exception

from the provisions of this Ordinance which would otherwise

make the same an illegal practice, payment, employment, or

hiring, and thereupon such candidate, agent, or person shall

not be subject to any of the consequences under this Ordinance

or any other enactment of the said act or omission.

Sending in claims

and making payments for election expenses.

s.21

1

25.

g

· (1) Every claim against any person in respect of

any expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at an

election of a councillor on account of or in respect of the

conduct or management of such election shall be sent in within

fourteen days after the day of election, and if not so sent

in shail ve varred and not paid, and all expenses incurred as

aforesaid shall be paid within twenty-one days after the day

of election, and not otherwise, and any person who makes a

payment in contravention of this section, except where such

payment is allowed as provided by this section, shall be

guilty u' an illegal practice, but if such payment was made

without the sanction or connivance of the candidate, the

election of such candidate shall not be void, nor shall he

be subject to any incapacity under this Ordinance or any

other enactment by reason only of such payment having been

made in contravention of this section.

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