Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982
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Number 5 of 1982 | ||||||||
PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982 | ||||||||
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS | ||||||||
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Number 5 of 1982 | ||||||||
PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982 | ||||||||
AN ACT TO AMEND THE PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1923 . [19th May, 1982] | ||||||||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: | ||||||||
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Amendment of Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923. |
1.—The Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 3: | |||||||
“Definition of personation. | ||||||||
3.—A person who— | ||||||||
(a) at an election applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be the name of a living person or of a dead person or of a fictitious person, or | ||||||||
(b) having obtained a ballot paper once at an election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name (otherwise than under Rule 26 of Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 ), | ||||||||
shall be guilty of the offence of personation.”. | ||||||||
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Short title. |
2.—This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982. | |||||||
