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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 119

Offences by corporations.

119.(1) Where any electoral misdemeanour is committed by any association or
body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, the members of the association or
body who have taken part in the commission of the offence shall be severally
liable to any fine or punishment imposed for that misdemeanour by this Act.

(2) Where any act or omission of an association or body of persons, corporate
or unincorporate, is an offence declared to be a corrupt or illegal practice
by paragraph 7 or, so far as it relates to failure to send a declaration or
return or copy thereof as required by section forty-one, paragraph 16 of the
Ninth Schedule, any person who at the time of the act or omission was a
director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the
association or body, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be
deemed to be guilty of that offence, unless he proves that the act or omission
took place without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such
diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have
exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to
all the circumstances.

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