or for
any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election;
(g) after any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, receive any money or valuable consideration 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:
Provided always that the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall not extend or be construed to extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid for or on account of any legal expenses bona fide incurred at or concerning any election.
Persona- tion.
8.
No person shall at any election—
Troating.
Undue influence.
(a) apply for a ballot paper in the name of any other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead, or of a fictitious person;
(6) having once voted at an election, apply at the same
election for a ballot paper in his own name.
7. No person shall, before, during, or after any election, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person-
(4) corruptly give or provide, or pay wholly or in part the expense of giving or providing any meal, drink, entertain- ment or provision to or for any person for the purpose of influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving bis vote at the election, or on account of such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting at such election :
(b) accept or take any such meal, drink, entertainment or
provision.
8. No person 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 by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any voter, or thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any elector either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election.
corrupt
9. (1) Where upon the bearing of an election petition it is Incapacity found by the certificate or report of the Court made in pursuance candidate of the appropriate section of the relevant Ordinance, that any reported corrupt practice has been proved to have been committed in guilty of reference to the election questioned by such petition by or with practice. the knowledge and consent of any candidate at such election, that candidate shall not be capable of ever holding office as a member, officer, or servant of the body to which such candidate sought election, and if he has been elected his election shall be void; and he shall further be subject to the same incapacities as if at the date of the said certificate or report he had been convicted of a corrupt practice.
(2) Upon the hearing of an election petition in which a charge is made of any corrupt practice having been committed in reference to the election questioned by such petition, the Court shall report in writing to the Governor and to the secretary whether any of the candidates at such election has been guilty by his agents of any corrupt practice in reference to such election.
(3) If the report is that any candidate at such election has been guilty by his agents of a corrupt practice in reference to such election, that candidate shall be incapable of being elected to or of holding office as a member, officer, or servant of the body to which such candidate purported to be elected during a period of three years from the date of the report, and if he has been clected, his election shall be void.
PART III Illegal Practices.
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10. Any person who contravenes the provisions of section 11. Definition 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 or 23 or of subsection (1) of section 12, and punish- subsection (2) of section 13, subsection (1) of section 16 or sub- illegal section (1) or (2) of section 19 shall be deemed to be guilty of practices at
elections. an illegal practice and shall be liable-
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