C1 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

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Offences

65BF1Scottish local government elections: false information in nomination papers etc.

1

This section applies in relation to a local government election in Scotland.

2

A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he causes or permits to be included in a document delivered or otherwise furnished to a returning officer for use in connection with the election—

a

a statement of the name or home address of a candidate at the election which he knows to be false in any particular; or

b

anything which purports to be the signature of an elector who proposes, seconds or assents to the nomination of such a candidate but which he knows—

i

was not written by the elector by whom it purports to have been written; or

ii

if written by that elector, was not written by him for the purpose of signifying that he was proposing, seconding or, as the case may be, assenting to that candidate's nomination.

3

A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if he makes in any document in which he gives his consent to his nomination as a candidate at the election—

a

a statement of his date of birth; or

b

a statement as to his qualification for being elected at the election,

which he knows to be false in any particular.

4

For the purposes of subsection (3) above, a statement as to a candidate's qualification is a statement—

a

that he is qualified for being elected;

b

that he will be qualified for being elected; or

c

that to the best of his knowledge and belief he is not disqualified for being elected.