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Part IIA (ss.10A‐10C) inserted by 1968 c.20 (NI) s.6(1), rep....
39.Payment of expenses at an election through election agent.
40.Personal expenses of candidate and petty expenses at an election.
48.Penalty for sitting or voting after failure to transmit return and declarations.
49.Authorised excuses for failures as respects return and declarations.
50.Power of court to require information from election agent or sub-agent.
51.Publication of summary of return as to election expenses at elections.
54.Rateability of premises unaffected by election meeting thereon.
55.Duty on and licences for carriages, etc., used at elections.
Part VIII (ss.69—71) rep. by 1968 c.20 (NI)
PART IX QUESTIONING OF ELECTIONS
73.Attendance of Director of Public Prosecutions at trial of election petition.
75.Presentation and service of parliamentary election petition.
76.Time for presentation or amendment of parliamentary election petition.
80.Time for presentation or amendment of local election petition.
94.Report as to candidate guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice.
95.Avoidance of election and incapacity of candidate reported guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice.
96.Provisions applying to all persons reported personally guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice.
100.Votes to be struck off for corrupt or illegal practices.
PART X ELECTORAL MISDEMEANOURS
104.Giving of leave of absence to employees to record their votes.
107.Power to except innocent act from being illegal practice, payment, employment or hiring.
110.Compensation where charge of personation is unjustly made or not prosecuted.
111.Penalties for electoral offences by officers and other persons.
112.Incapacities resulting from convictions for corrupt or illegal practices.
115.Prosecutions for offences committed outside Northern Ireland.
SCHEDULES
Part II Stages Common to Contested and Uncontested Elections
5.(1) Each candidate shall be nominated by a separate nomination paper, in the form in...
5A.(1) A nomination paper may not include a description of a candidate which is likely...
6.(1) The nomination paper shall be subscribed by two electors for the district electoral area...
7.A person shall not be validly nominated unless his consent to nomination is— (a) given...
8.The returning officer shall fix the place at which nomination papers are to be delivered...
9.(1) Except for the purpose of delivering a nomination paper or of assisting the returning...
10.(1) Where a nomination paper and the candidate's consent to it are delivered in accordance...
11.(1) A candidate may withdraw his candidature by notice of withdrawal— (a) signed by him...
12.(1) The returning officer shall prepare and publish a statement showing the persons who have...
13.(1) Where the proceedings for or in connection with nomination are on any day interrupted...
14.(1) If the number of persons standing nominated, as shown by the statement of persons...
16.(1) The ballot of every voter shall consist of a ballot paper, and the persons...
17.(1) Every ballot paper shall be marked with an official mark, which shall perforate or...
18.No person who has voted at the election shall, in any legal proceeding to question...
19.(1) The returning officer may use, free of charge, for the purpose of taking the...
20.(1) The returning officer shall in the statement of persons nominated include a notice of...
21.(1) The returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to those entitled to vote...
22.(1) The returning officer shall provide a sufficient number of polling stations and shall allot...
23.(1) The returning officer shall appoint and pay a presiding officer to attend at each...
25.(1) The returning officer shall as soon as practicable send to electors and their proxies...
26.(1) The returning officer shall provide each presiding officer with such number of ballot boxes...
27.(1) Each candidate may, before the commencement of the poll, appoint— (a) polling agents to...
28.The returning officer shall make such arrangements as he thinks fit to ensure that— (a)...
29.(1) The presiding officer shall regulate the number of voters to be admitted to the...
30.(1) It is the presiding officer's duty to keep order at his polling station. (2)...
31.Immediately before the commencement of the poll, the presiding officer shall show the ballot box...
32.(1) The presiding officer may, and if required by a candidate or his election or...
33.(1) If at the time a person applies for a ballot paper for the purpose...
34.(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (7), a ballot paper shall be delivered to a...
35.(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the presiding officer, on the application of a voter— (a)...
36.(1) If a voter makes an application to the presiding officer to be allowed, on...
37.(1) If a person, representing himself to be— (a) a particular elector named on the...
38.(1) This rule applies where a presiding officer refuses to deliver a ballot paper under...
39.A voter who has inadvertently dealt with his ballot paper in such manner that it...
39A.The presiding officer shall keep a list of persons to whom ballot papers are delivered...
40.(1) Where the proceedings at any polling station are interrupted or obstructed by riot or...
41.(1) As soon as practicable after the close of the poll, the presiding officer shall,...
43.(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the returning officer shall make arrangements for counting the votes...
44.(1) No person other than— (a) the returning officer and his clerks, (b) the candidates,...
45.(1) Before the returning officer proceeds to count the votes, he shall— (a) in the...
46.(1) Any ballot paper— (a) which does not bear the official mark; or (b) on...
47.(1) The returning officer shall sort the ballot papers into parcels according to the candidates...
48.(1) The returning officer shall divide the number of valid ballot papers by a number...
49.(1) Where the number of first preference votes for any candidate exceeds the quota, the...
50.(1) If, at any stage of the count, two or more candidates have surpluses, the...
51.(1) If— (a) all transferable papers which under the provisions of rule 49 (including that...
52.(1) Where the number of continuing candidates is equal to the number of vacancies remaining...
53.(1) The returning officer on completion of each stage of the count shall, before proceeding...
53A.(1) The returning officer may make arrangements for— (a) ballot boxes for the local election...
54.(1) The order in which candidates whose votes equal or exceed the quota are deemed...
55.The decision of the returning officer, whether expressed or implied, on any question which arises...
Part V Final Proceedings in Contested and Uncontested Elections
58.(1) This rule applies to the following documents— (a) the packets of ballot papers in...
59.(1) An order for— (a) the inspection or production of any rejected ballot papers in...
60.(1) The proper officer of the council shall retain for six months the documents to...
1.Bribery (1) A person shall be guilty of bribery if he, directly or indirectly, by...
2.Treating (1) A person shall be guilty of treating if he corruptly, by himself or...
3.Undue influence A person shall be guilty of undue influence— if he, directly, or indirectly,...
4.Personation (1) A person shall be guilty of personation if at any election he— (a)...
5.Misdemeanours as to proxy voting Except at a local election A person shall be guilty...
5A.A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he causes or permits to be...
6.Making a false declaration as to election expenses A candidate or an election agent shall...
7.Incurring unauthorised expenses A person shall be guilty of incurring unauthorised expenses if he incurs,...
8.Attempting or conspiring to commit a corrupt practice A person shall be guilty of a...
9.Aiding and abetting the commission of a corrupt practice A person shall be guilty of...
10.(1) Except at a local election A person shall be guilty of an illegal practice...
11.A person shall be guilty of an illegal practice if— (a) he votes— (i) at...
12.(1) Except at a local election A person shall be guilty of an illegal practice...
12A.(1) A person shall be guilty of an illegal practice if— (a) he votes in...
13.(1) A person who commits an offence under Article 7(2) of the Public Order (Northern...
14.A candidate or an election agent who commits the offence specified in paragraph 28 shall...
15.A candidate or an election agent who is personally guilty of any of the offences...
16.If any person fails to send any statement, declaration or return or copy thereof as...
17.A person who makes any payment, advance or deposit in contravention of sub-section (1) of...
18.(1) No payment or contract for payment shall for the purpose of promoting or procuring...
19.Any person who, before or during an election, knowingly publishes a false statement of the...
20.(1) Any person who, or any director of any body or association corporate which, for...
21.(1) A person making a payment or contract in contravention of sub-section (4) of section...
22.An election agent who pays a claim in contravention of sub-section (1) of section forty-three...
23.A person shall be guilty of an illegal practice if he— (a) attempts or conspires...
24A.A person who makes a statement which he knows to be false in any declaration...
25.If any person upon whom any functions are conferred by or under this Act in...
26.(1) A person shall be guilty of an electoral offence if he without lawful authority...
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27.(1) A person attending at or admitted to a polling station in any capacity at...
27A.(1) A person who publishes before the poll at a local election is closed— (a)...
28.Subject to paragraph 14, any person who— (a) prints or publishes, or causes to be...
29.(1) Subject to paragraph 15, a person shall be guilty of an electoral offence (in...
30.Subject to paragraph 15, if a person is either before, during or after any election,...
32.If any returning officer at any election, or any officer or clerk duly appointed under...
32A.(1) A person to whom this paragraph applies shall be guilty of an electoral offence...
34.Except at a local election A person shall be guilty of an electoral offence if...
35.Any electoral misdemeanour which is not specifically designated in the foregoing provisions of this Schedule...
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