C9Part II The Election Campaign

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C9

Pt. II (ss. 67-119) applied with modifications (E.W.) by S.I. 1987/1, Rules, 2, 6 and S.I. 1986/2215, Rules 2, 9 (which S.I. was revoked (2.1.2007) by S.I. 2006/3305, rule1(4), Sch. 1)

Agency by election officials and canvassing by police officers

C1C2C3C4C5100 Illegal canvassing by police officers.

C6C7C81

No member of a police force shall by word, message, writing or in any other manner, endeavour to persuade any person to give, or dissuade any person from giving, his vote, whether as an elector or as proxy—

a

at any parliamentary election for a constituency, or

b

at any local government election for any electoral area,

wholly or partly within the police area.

C6C7C82

A person acting in contravention of subsection (1) above shall be liable F1on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, but nothing in that subsection shall subject a member of a police force to any penalty for anything done in the discharge of his duty as a member of the force.

3

In this section references to a member of a police force and to a police area are to be taken in relation to Northern Ireland as references to a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and to Northern Ireland.