SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Avoidance of election for employing corrupt agent

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Section 165 shall be amended as follows.

2

After subsection (3) (vote given for person incapable of being elected by reason of employing corrupt agent not to be deemed to be thrown away unless given for same person at a poll consequent on the decision of an election court) there shall be added—

4

In the case of an election of the Mayor of London, a vote deemed in accordance with subsection (3) above to be thrown away shall be so deemed only to the extent that it is a vote given so as to indicate that the person who was under the incapacity is the voter’s first or second preference from among the candidates.