ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 32 Corrupt and illegal practices lists.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 32

Corrupt and illegal practices lists.

32.(1) The registration officer... shall maintain a record containing

(a)the names and descriptions of the persons who, though otherwise qualified
to be registered as parliamentary or local electors..., are from time to time
disqualified for being so registered by reason of having been convicted or
reported guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice; and

(b)a statement of the offence of which each person has been found guilty.

(2) The registration officer shall in each registration year prepare from the
record maintained under subsection (1) a corrupt and illegal practices list of
the persons who at the date of publication of the register will be
disqualified as aforesaid.

(3) The registration officer shall publish the corrupt and illegal practices
list at the same time and in the same manner as he publishes the electors
lists for the register.

(4) Any person named in the corrupt and illegal practices list may claim to
have his name omitted therefrom, and any registration officer and any person
named in the electors lists for the register may object to the omission of the
name of any person from such corrupt and illegal practices list. Such claims
and objections shall be sent to the same person and within the same time and
be dealt with by the registration officer... in like manner as nearly as
circumstances permit as claims and objections relating to the electors lists
are to be sent and dealt with under Rules 13 to 18 of the Registration Rules.

(5) Where, whether or not an objection to the omission has been made, it
appears to the [Chief Electoral Officer] that a person not named in the
corrupt and illegal practices list ought to be so named, he shall, after
giving such person an opportunity of appearing before him to show cause to the
contrary, insert his name in such list and remove his name from the electors
lists.

(6) The [Chief Electoral Officer] shall, for the purposes of this section,
determine only whether a person is disqualified by reason of having been
reported guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice or of having been convicted
of such a practice and shall not determine whether or not a person has been
guilty of such a practice.

(7) The corrupt and illegal practices list shall be appended to the register
of electors, and shall be printed and published therewith.

S.33 rep. by 1968 c.20 (NI) s.8 sch.4 Pt.I

Appointment of election agent.

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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 32