Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962

False statements in nomination papers, etc. N.I.

[F1 5A [F2 (1)] A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he causes or permits to be included in a document delivered or otherwise furnished to a returning officer for use in connection with a local election—

(a) a statement of the name or home address of a candidate at the election which he knows to be false in any particular; F3 . . .

(b) anything which purports to be the signature of an elector who proposes, seconds or assents to, the nomination of such a candidate but which he knows—

(i) was not written by the elector by whom it purports to have been written, or

(ii) if written by that elector, was not written by him for the purpose of signifying that he was proposing, seconding, or (as the case may be) assenting to, that candidate's nomination; [F4 or

(c) a certificate authorising for the purposes of rule 5A of the Local Elections Rules the use by a candidate of a description if the person knows that the candidate is standing at another election in the same local government electoral area in which the poll is to be held on the same day as the election to which the certificate relates.]

[F5 (2) A person (“P”) is guilty of a corrupt practice if, in any document giving consent to his or her nomination as a candidate at a local election, P makes—

(a) a statement of P's date of birth;

(b) a statement as to P's qualification for being elected at that election; or

(c) a statement that P is not a candidate at an election in the same local government electoral area the poll for which is to be held on the same day as the election to which the consent relates;

which P knows to be false in any particular.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), a statement as to P's qualification is a statement—

(a) that P is qualified for being elected,

(b) that P will be qualified for being elected, or

(c) that to the best of P's knowledge and belief P is not disqualified for being elected.]]

F1 SI 2001/417

F2 Sch. 9 para. 5A renumbered (16.12.2010) as Sch. 9 para. 5A(1) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 31(1) (with art. 1(3))

F3 Word in Sch. 9 para. 5A(1) omitted (16.12.2010) by virtue of Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 31(2) (with art. 1(3))

F4 Sch. 9 para. 5A(1)(c) and word inserted (16.12.2010) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 31(2) (with art. 1(3))

F5 Sch. 9 para. 5A(2)(3) inserted (16.12.2010) by Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2977), arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1 para. 31(3) (with art. 1(3))