Representation of the people act, 1918, as applicable to ScotlandWilliam Hodge, 1918 - 544 pages |
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absent voters list appeal apply to Scotland appointed authorised Ballot Act ballot box ballot paper envelope burgh Caledonian Railway centre line claim claimant clerk commencement Corrupt and Illegal corrupt or illegal county or borough Court of Session declaration of identity District of Burghs Division election agent election court election expenses election petition enactments entitled to vote franchise government elector guilty Illegal Practices Prevention incurred Majesty ment mentary military voters municipal naval or military nomination paper Note notice occupied offence Order in Council Parlia Parliamentary Borough Parliamentary County Parliamentary Elections person polling district polling station Practices Prevention Act prescribed presiding officer provisions proxy paper purpose pursuance qualifying period referred registration officer repealed Representation respect returning officer River Clyde Rule Secretary for Scotland section 43 sub-parcel sub-section thence therein thereof tion total number transferred university constituency university election Vict voting by proxy voting paper writ yearly value
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Page 117 - Every regulation under this act shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat...
Page 350 - A en. agree to give or lend,- or shall offer, promise, or promise to procure or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election...
Page 312 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said election.
Page 391 - ... for the purpose of corruptly influencing such person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote...
Page 351 - ... 1. Every voter who shall, before or during any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place, or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any election : 2.
Page 350 - Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be lwid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 350 - ... offer, promise, procurement, or agreement, as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavor to procure, the return of any person to serve in parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election ; 4.
Page 296 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, give or procure, or agree to give or procure, or offer, promise, or promise to procure or to endeavour to procure, any office, place, or employment...
Page 307 - Act, or of otherwise being in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, be but for this section an illegal practice, payment, employment, or hiring; and (b) that such act or omission arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculation or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature...
Page 268 - ... station, so that they may see that it is empty, and shall then lock it up, and place his seal upon it in such manner as to prevent...