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5After section 65 insert—
(1)A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if, in the case of any relevant election, 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.
(2)In this section“relevant election” means—
(a)any parliamentary election, or
(b)any local government election in England or Wales.”
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