ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 120 Provisions as to Director of Public Prosecutions.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 120

Provisions as to Director of Public Prosecutions.

120.(1) Where information is given to [the Director of Public Prosecutions for
Northern Ireland] that any electoral misdemeanour has occurred in reference to
any election, it shall be his duty to make such inquiries and institute such
prosecutions as the circumstances of the case appear to him to require.

(2) A prosecution by [the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern
Ireland] for any offence punishable summarily committed in reference to a
local election may be instituted before any court of summary jurisdiction in
the county in which the local government electoral area for which the election
was held is situate or which it adjoins, and the offence shall be deemed for
all purposes to have been committed within the jurisdiction of that court.

(3) There shall be allowed to [the Director of Public Prosecutions for
Northern Ireland] for the purposes of Part IX and this Part other than his
general duties under sub-section (1) such allowances for expenses as the
Ministry of Finance may approve.

(4) The costs incurred in defraying the expenses of [the Director of Public
Prosecutions for Northern Ireland] incurred for the said purposes shall, in
the first instance, be paid by the Ministry of Finance, and so far as they are
not in the case of any prosecution paid by the defendant shall be deemed to be
expenses of the election court; but the court if for any reasonable cause it
seems just so to do, may order all or part of the said costs to be repaid to
the Ministry of Finance by the parties to the petition, or such of them as the
court may direct.

Saving for rights of certain persons who are not British subjects.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 120