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(8)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or

who fails to furnish a substituted petitioner with evidence

as required by subsection (5) commits an offence and is

liable to a fine of $5,000, and in case of an individual,

to imprisonment for 6 months.

Abatement of

election petition.

37. (1) An election petition shall, in the case of

an election petition presented by one or more individuals,

be abated by the death of that petitioner or the death

of the survivor of those petitioners.

(2) The abatement of an election petition under

subsection (1) shall not affect the liability of the estate

of the petitioner or the liability of any other person for

the payment of costs previously incurred.

(3) On the abatement of an election petition the

Registrar shall cause a notice thereof to be published

in the Gazette, and within 14 days after the publication

of such notice, any person who might have been a

petitioner in respect of the election may apply to the

Court to be substituted as a petitioner, and the Court

may, if it thinks fit, substitute that person accordingly.

(4)

Security shall be given on behalf of a

petitioner so substituted to the like extent as in

the case of an original election petition.