CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 149

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PART II

Disqualifications for registration.

[Common Law]

Ordinance No.1 of 1898.

8.9(4)

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Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provision

a person may be registered for more than one such electoral

division or ward and may vote in any such electoral division or ward for which he is registered at an election to fill a

casual vacancy.

11.

(1) The following persons are disqualified from

being registered as electors or voting at an election,

namely

(a) Persons of unsound mind and idiots; provided

if duly

that a person of unsound mind may,

registered as an elector, vote during a lucid

interval.

(b) A person who has been convicted of treason or

felony, for which he has been sentenced to death

or to any term of imprisonment exceeding twelve

months.

(2) The following persons are disqualified from being

registered as electors or voting at an election held within

seven years after the date of conviction, namely ·

(a) A person found guilty on indictment of a

corrupt practice within the meaning of any

enactment for the time being in force providing

for the punishment of corrupt or illegal practices. (b) A person found guilty on summary conviction or on

indictment of an illegal practice within the

meaning of any enactment for the time being in

force providing for the punishment of corrupt or

illegal practices.

(a)

A person who is convicted of an offence under

Section 3 or Section 4 of the Misdemeanors

Punishment Ordinance, 1898.

(3) A person shall not be disqualified from voting at

an election by reason that he is employed for payment by or

on behalf of a candidate at such election, so long as the

employment is legal.

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