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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 112

Incapacities resulting from convictions for corrupt or illegal practices.

112.(1) Subject to the provisions of section one hundred and thirteen, but in
addition to any punishment as provided by the foregoing provisions of this
Part,

(a)a person convicted of a corrupt practice on indictment or by an
election court shall be subject to the incapacities imposed by sub-section (3)
of section ninety-six as if at the date of the conviction he had been reported
personally guilty of that corrupt practice; and

(b)a person convicted of an illegal practice shall be subject to the
incapacities imposed by sub-section (4) of section ninety-six as if at the
date of the conviction he had been reported personally guilty of that illegal
practice.

In this sub-section the expression "indictment" includes criminal information.

(2) Where a person holding a licence or certificate under the Licensing Acts
(Northern Ireland) is convicted of the corrupt practice of bribery or treating
and it appears to the court convicting him that the corrupt practice was
committed on his licensed premises, that court shall direct the conviction to
be entered in the proper register of licences, and on any application for the
renewal of the licence or certificate the licensing court shall take the entry
into consideration and may make it a ground for refusing the application.

Subs.(3) amends s.2 of 1889 c.69

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