SCHEDULES

NINTH SCHEDULE F1ELECTORAL MISDEMEANOURS

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

mod. SI 2003/1557

PART ICORRUPT PRACTICES

4AF2Offences relating to applications for postal and proxy votes at a local election

1

A person (“P”) is guilty of a corrupt practice if P—

a

engages in an act specified in sub-paragraph (2) at a local election, and

b

intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for P or another a gain of a vote to which P or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.

2

These are the acts—

a

applying for a postal or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);

b

otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for a postal or proxy vote;

c

inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to a postal or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to the vote;

d

causing a communication relating to a postal or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.

3

In sub-paragraph (1)(b), property includes any description of property.

4

In sub-paragraph (2) a reference to a postal vote or a postal ballot paper includes a reference to a proxy postal vote or a proxy postal ballot paper (as the case may be).

5

For the purposes of this paragraph—

“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;

“postal voter” means a person entitled to vote by post at an election as an absent voter or as a proxy; and

“proxy postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a proxy postal voter.