Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001

7.  In section 96 of the 1962 Act (candidate or other person reported personally guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice)(1), for subsections (3) and (4) substitute:

“(3) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3A) and section 113(2) to (6), a candidate or other person reported by an election court personally guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice—

(a) shall during the relevant period specified in subsection (4) be incapable of—

(i) being registered as an elector or voting at any local election in Northern Ireland, or

(ii) holding any elective office; and

(b) if already holding any such office shall vacate it as from the date of report.

(3A) The incapacity incurred by subsection (3)(a)(i) applies to a candidate or other person reported personally guilty of a corrupt practice under paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 (personation) or of an illegal practice under paragraph 12A of Schedule 9 (other voting offences)(2).

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) the relevant period is the period beginning with the date of the report and ending—

(a) in the case of a person reported personally guilty of a corrupt practice, five years after that date, or

(b) in the case of a person reported personally guilty of an illegal practice, three years after that date.”.

(1)

Section 96 has been amended but the amendment is not relevant to the subject matter of this Order.

(2)

Paragraph 12A was inserted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1987/168.