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• Election Offences and Controversies 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Preliminary
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Election Offences
  • 3 Election officers not to participate in election campaign
  • 4 Breaches of official duty
  • 5 Requirement of secrecy
  • 6 Bribery
  • 7 Treating
  • 8 Undue influence
  • 9 Personation
  • 10 Other voting offences
  • 10A Illegal practice
  • 11 Tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers, etc.
  • 12 Intoxicating liquor not to be sold
  • 13 Loud speakers, banners, etc., prohibited
  • 14 Prohibition of employment of bands for music
  • 15 Persons not to congregate near polling stations
  • 16 Influencing electors to vote for any candidate
  • 17 False statement as to candidate
  • 18 Name and address of printer on election publications
  • 19 Premises not to be used as committee rooms
  • 20 Employers to allow employees reasonable period for voting
  • 21 Disturbances at election meetings
  • 22 Notice of meetings
  • 23 Corrupt withdrawal from candidature
  • 24 Providing money for illegal purposes
  • 25 Savings as to elections
  • 26 Rights of creditors
• PART III Legal Proceedings in relation to Election Offences
  • 27 Prosecution for corrupt practice
  • 28 Prosecution for illegal practice
  • 29 Conviction of illegal practice on charge of corrupt practice
  • 30 Illegal payments or hirings
  • 31 Time limit for prosecutions
  • 32 Offences by association of persons
  • 33 Evidence by certificate of holding of elections
  • 34 Effect of certificates of indemnity
  • 35 Power to except innocent act from being illegal practice, payment or hiring
• PART IV Election Controversies
  • 36 Method of questioning election
  • 37 Presentation and service of election petition
  • 38 Time for presentation or amendment of election petition
  • 39 Constitution of election court and place of trial
  • 40 Attendance and payment of shorthand writers
  • 41 Security for costs
  • 42 Petition at issue
  • 43 List of petitions
  • 44 Trial of petition
  • 45 Witnesses
  • 46 Conclusion of trial of election petition
  • 47 Withdrawal of petition
  • 48 Abatement of petition
  • 49 Withdrawal and substitution of respondents before trial
  • 50 Costs of petition
  • 51 Further provisions as to costs of petition
• PART V Consequences of a finding of corrupt or illegal practice
  • 52 Report as to candidate guilty of corrupt or illegal practice
  • 53 Report of all persons guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice
  • 54 Avoidance of election of candidate reported guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice
  • 55 Circumstances in which election may be avoided for general corruption, etc.
  • 56 Avoidance of election for employing a corrupt election agent
  • 57 Votes to be struck off for corrupt or illegal practices
  • 58 Incapacity of candidate reported guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice
  • 59 Consequent incapacities to persons reported personally guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice
  • 60 Incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice
  • 61 Mitigation and remission of incapacities
  • 62 Reports, convictions and acquittals for corrupt and illegal practices and the terms of any order made by the Judge under section 61 to be reported to Chief Registering Officer
• PART VI Miscellaneous
  • 63 Computation of time
  • 64 Rules of Court
  • 65 Savings for existing incapacities