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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Section 1
   2A.     Section 2A
   3.      Application of Part II of First Schedule.
   5.      Residence.
   7.      Interpretation of this Part.
   11.     Section 11
   14.     Section 14
   14A.    Appointment of persons to assist Chief Electoral Officer.
   14B.    Travelling and subsistence allowances.
   15.     Duties of Chief Electoral Officer.
   21.     Expenses of registration.
   22.     Remuneration and expenses of returning officer at parliamentary
           election.
   23.     Remuneration and expenses of Chief Electoral Officer and other
           persons at local election.
   24.     Claims against, and taxation of expenses of, returning officer.
   25.     Remuneration retainable by officers.
   27.     Section 27
   28.     Section 28
   29.     Miscellaneous provisions as to registration and voting.
   31.     Restrictions on voting.
   32.     Corrupt and illegal practices lists.
   34.     Section 34
   35.     Sub-agents at parliamentary elections.
   36.     Offices of election agent and sub-agent.
   37.     Default in appointing election agent.
   38.     Making of contracts through election agent.
   39.     Payment of expenses at an election through election agent.
   40.     Personal expenses of candidate and petty expenses at an election.
   41.     Prohibition of unauthorised expenses.
   42.     Limitation of expenses at an election.
   43.     Section 43
   44.     Disputed claims.
   45.     Claim by election agent at an election.
   46.     Return as to expenses at an election.
   47.     Declarations as to expenses at a parliamentary election.
   48.     Penalty for sitting or voting after failure to transmit return and
           declarations.
   49.     Authorised excuses for failures as respects return and declarations.
   50.     Power of court to require information from election agent or
           sub-agent.
   51.     Publication of summary of return as to election expenses at
           elections.
   52.     Inspection of returns and declarations.
   53.     Right to send election address post free.
   54.     Rateability of premises unaffected by election meeting thereon.
   55.     Duty on and licences for carriages, etc., used at elections.
   56.     Rights of creditors.
   57.     Section 57
   58.     Saving as respects acts, etc., of officers.
   59.     Returning officer not disqualified for voting.
   60.     Candidates' deposits.
   61.     Section 61
   62.     Plural candidatures prohibited.
   63.     Offices of returning officers at parliamentary elections.
   64.     Offices of returning officers at local elections.
   65.     Section 65
   66.     Voting by post.
   67.     Voting by proxy.
   72.     Section 72
   73.     Attendance of Director of Public Prosecutions at trial of election
           petition.
   74.     Method of questioning parliamentary election.
   75.     Presentation and service of parliamentary election petition.
   76.     Time for presentation or amendment of parliamentary election petition.
   77.     Conclusion of trial of parliamentary election petition.
   78.     Method of questioning local election.
   79.     Section 79
   80.     Time for presentation or amendment of local election petition.
   81.     Conclusion of trial of local election petition.
   82.     Consequences of avoidance of local election.
   83.     Special case for determination of Court of Appeal.
   84.     Withdrawal of petition.
   85.     Evidence required for withdrawal of petition.
   86.     Punishment for corrupt withdrawal.
   87.     Substitution of new petitioner.
   88.     Report on withdrawal.
   89.     Section 89
   90.     Withdrawal and substitution of respondents before trial.
   91.     Costs of petition.
   92.     Further provision as to costs of petition.
   93.     Jurisdiction.
   94.     Report as to candidate guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice.
   95.     Avoidance of election and incapacity of candidate reported guilty of
           a corrupt or illegal practice.
   96.     Section 96
   97.     Disciplinary action on report of corrupt practice.
   98.     Avoidance of election for general corruption, etc.
   99.     Avoidance of election for employing corrupt agent.
   100.    Votes to be struck off for corrupt or illegal practices.
   101.    Service of notices, etc.
   102.    Rules of court.
   103.    Section 103
   104.    Giving of leave of absence to employees to record their votes.
   105.    Prosecution and trial of electoral misdemeanours.
   106.    Prosecution of offences disclosed on election petition.
   107.    Power to except innocent act from being illegal practice, payment,
           employment or hiring.
   108.    Penalties for corrupt practices.
   109.    Section 109
   110.    Compensation where charge of personation is unjustly made or not
           prosecuted.
   111.    Penalties for electoral offences by officers and other persons.
   112.    Incapacities resulting from convictions for corrupt or illegal
           practices.
   113.    Mitigation and remission of incapacities.
   114.    Corrupt and illegal practices committed by agents.
   115.    Prosecutions for offences committed outside Northern Ireland.
   116.    Evidence by certificate of holding of elections.
   118.    Time limit for prosecutions.
   119.    Offences by corporations.
   120.    Provisions as to Director of Public Prosecutions.
   121.    Section 121
   122.    Section 122
   123.    Publication of notices and documents.
   124.    Misnomer, inaccurate description, etc.
   125.    Use of mark in place of signature.
   126.    Amendment of forms in Tenth Schedule.
   127.    Electoral regulations.
   128.    Financial provisions.
   129.    Computation of time.
   130.    Interpretation.
   131.    1954 c.33
   132.    1954 c.33

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