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Corrupt practices

Corrupt practices. At elections these are treating, un-due influence, bribery, personation, making a false declaration as to election expenses, and incurring election

therefore is not disqualified to be chosen as a municipal councilor, Lalitha Bai v. Returning Officer, City Municipality Elections, AIR 1971 Mys 35 (36). [Mysore Town Municipalities Act, (22 of 1951), s. 14] No doubt the Committee

London, Port of

s. 6 enacts:- (1) There shall be a chairman and vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority elected and appointed in manner provided by this Act for the purpose of administering, preserving and improving the Port

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Bribe

and corruption of members, officers, and servants of public bodies. A right to vote for a candidate for election to the House of Commons being deemed a trust as well, it has been provided [(English) Corrupt Practices

Relief

coming into possession of an estate held under him. Abolished with other feudal grievances. Relief with respect to Election Offences. If a candidate at a parliamentary or municipal election has become responsible in respect of an election

Returning Officer

Returning Officer, the official who conducts an election. The Representation of the People Act, 1918, s. 28, provides that in parliamentary elections the sheriff shall be

Treating

1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended to municipal, school board, and other elections by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1884, and continued from time to time by Expiring Laws Continuance Acts,

Municipal corporation

the control of a municipal corporation, consisting of the 'mayor, aldermen, and burgesses,' and acting through a; council' elected by the burgesses, i.e., persons entitled to vote under the (English) Representation of the People Acts, 1918 to

Conge d'Eslire, or elire

Conge d'Eslire, or elire (leave to elect). The king's licence or permission sent to a dean and chapter to proceed to the election of a

Ballot

v. Howard, (1886) 16 QBD 739, though entire absence renders the presiding officer liable to an action for election lost, Pickering v. James, (1873) LR 8 CP 489. The system thus introduced into Parliamentary and Municipal Elections

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