Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982
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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.”. |