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ELECTORAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 99

Avoidance of election for employing corrupt agent.

99.(1) If at a parliamentary or local election a candidate or his election
agent personally engages as a canvasser or agent for the conduct or management
of the election any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for
supposing to be subject to an incapacity to vote at the election by reason of
his having been convicted or reported guilty of any corrupt or illegal
practice within the meaning of this Act, the candidate shall be incapable of
being elected to fill the vacancy or any of the vacancies for which the
election is held.

(2) A local election may be questioned on the ground that the person whose
election is questioned was, at the time of the election, by virtue of this
section incapable of being elected; but a vote given for such a person at
either a parliamentary or local election shall not, by reason of his
incapacity under this section, be deemed to be thrown away so as to entitle
another candidate to be declared elected, unless given at a poll consequent on
the decision of an election court that he was so incapable.

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