Corrupt withdrawal from candida- ture.
Provisions as to addresses. bills, notices, etc.
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(2) No person shall hire, borrow or use for the purpose of the free conveyance of electors to or from the poll any vehicle which he knows the owner thereof is prohibited by this section to let, lend or employ for that purpose;
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent a vehicle being let to or hired, employed, or used by an elector, or several electors at their joint cost, for the purpose of carrying him or them to or from the poll.
18. (1) No person shall corruptly induce or procure any other person to withdraw from being a candidate at an election in consideration of any payment or reward or promise of payment or reward.
(2) No person shall withdraw from being a candidate at an election in consideration of any payment or reward or promise of payment or reward by any other person.
19. (1) No person shall print, publish, exhibit, distribute or post up or cause to be printed, published, exhibited, distributed or posted up, any address, bill, notice, placard, or poster having reference to an election which fails to bear the name and address of the printer and publisher thereof.
(2) No person shall publish, exhibit, distribute or post up or cause to be published, exhibited, distributed or posted up any address, bill, notice, placard or poster having reference to an election unless he, not less than twenty-four hours before-
(a) shall have deposited with the secretary two copies of
such address, bill, notice, placard or poster; and
(6) in the case of any such address, bill, notice, placard or poster wholly or partly in the Chinese language, shall have deposited a copy thereof with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or, in the case of the New Territories, with the District Commissioner.
(3) Each address, bill, notice, placard and poster deposited with the secretary or the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the District Commissioner, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) shall be retained by him at his office during the six months after it has been received by him.
After the expiration of the said six months the secretary or the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the District Commissioner, as the case may be, may cause any such address, bill, notice, placard or poster to be destroyed.
(4) Paragraph (19) of section 3 of the Summary Offences (Cap. 228). Ordinance shall not apply to any address, bill, notice, placard or poster having reference to an election, a copy of which has been deposited with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the District Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a).
20. No person shall, for the purpose of promoting or procur- Bands of ing the election of a candidate at an election, make or contract music,
torches, to make any payment on account of bands of music, torches, flags flags and
banners.
or banners.
ment
21. (1) No person shall, for the purpose of promoting or Certain procuring the election of a candidate, engage or employ any other employ- person for payment or promise of payment for any purpose or in to be any capacity whatever, except as follows-
(a) one election agent may be employed by each candidate; (b) a number of persons may be employed, not exceeding one for every thousand electors and incomplete part of a thousand electors, and such persons may be employed as clerks and messengers, or in either capacity; and
(c) three polling agents may be employed in respect of each
polling station.
(2) No person shall accept any engagement or employment if at the time of acceptance of such engagement or employment he is aware that such engagement is contrary to the provisions of sub- section (1).
22. No person shall fraudulently deface or attempt to deface or fraudulently destroy or attempt to destroy any nomination paper.
23. No person shall-
illegal.
Offences in relation to
nomination paper.
Offences in relation
papers.
(4) fraudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any ballot to ballot
paper or the official mark on any ballot paper; or