The Powers, Duties & Liabilities of an Election Agent and of a Returning Officer at a Parliamentary Election in England and WalesC. Knight & Company, Limited, 1929 - 1014 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
32 Vict absent voters acting returning officer amount ante apply appointed association authority ballot box ballot paper Barrow-in-Furness bribery Buckrose candidate candidate's canvass certificate CHAP Cirencester claim committee room constituency corrupt practice counting agent counting assistants county or borough declaration of secrecy deputy disqualified duties elec election agent election court election expenses election petition electors employed given guilty held Hexham hiring illegal practice incapacity issue liable ment messenger nomination paper North Louth notice oath offence packet paid parliament parliamentary borough payment penalty person poll clerk polling agent polling district polling station presiding officer provision proxy paper purpose R. P. A. sch registration officer remuneration render Reports respect returning officer's solicitor statute statutory Stepney sub-agent tion treating undue influence vote as proxy writ writ of election СНАР
Popular passages
Page 738 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said nomination or election.
Page 815 - That the offences mentioned in the said report were of a trivial, unimportant, and limited character ; and (d) That in all other respects the election was free from any corrupt or illegal practice on the part of such Candidate and of his agents...
Page 348 - Every officer, clerk, and agent in attendance at the counting of the votes shall maintain and aid in maintaining the secrecy of the voting...
Page 259 - ... shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with a voter when marking his vote, or otherwise attempt to obtain in the polling station information as to the candidate for whom any voter in such station is about to vote or has voted, or communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a polling station as to the candidate for whom any voter in such station is about to vote or has voted, or as to the number on the back of the ballot paper given to any voter at such station.
Page 762 - A Senator shall not be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 794 - Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.
Page 843 - Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned : Provided that, — (1...
Page 799 - The packets shall be accompanied by a statement* made by such presiding officer, showing the number of ballot papers entrusted to him, and accounting for them under the heads of ballot papers in the ballot box, unused, spoilt, and tendered ballot papers, which statement is in this Act referred to as the ballot paper account.
Page 551 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, make any...
Page 590 - It shall be the duty of the returning officer to institute a prosecution against any person whom he may believe to have been guilty of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation by any person, at the election for which he is returning officer...