ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 111 Penalties for electoral offences by officers and other persons.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 111

Penalties for electoral offences by officers and other persons.

111.(1) A person guilty of an electoral offence shall, subject to sub-section
(2), be liable

(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six
months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds;

(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds;

(2) Where any officer or person on whom any functions are conferred [or
delegated] by or under this Act is convicted of an electoral offence
consisting of or involving misconduct or wilful negligence in the course of
the performance of any of those functions, sub-section (1) shall in relation
to that officer or person have effect as if the maximum penalties thereby
respectively provided were doubled.

(3) [The Chief Electoral Officer or any person to whom functions are delegated
by him under this Act,] the Clerk of the Crown, or a postmaster or his deputy,
shall not be liable for any breach of any duty imposed on him by or under
this Act to any penalty at common law and no action for damages shall lie in
respect of the breach by him of any such duty.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 111