VIRGIN
Isuanps.

Avoidance of
election of
eandidate -
certified guilty
of corrupt

or illegal
practice,

Avoidance

of election

for general
corruption,
ete.

d4. 0 Virgin Islands Constitution No.7 of 1954,
and ivlections.

and expenses that may become payable by
the petitioner—

(i) to any person summoned as a wit- |
ness on his behalf, or

(11) to the member whose election or
return is complained of, or to any
other person named as a respondent
in the petition,

shall be given on behalf of the petitioner;

(c) the security shall be to an amount of
twelve hundred dollars and shall be given by
recognizance to be entered into by any num-
ber of sureties not exceeding four approved
by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, or by
deposit of money in the Supreme Court,
or partly in one way and partly in the other.

(2) Rules, not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Ordinance, as to the deposit of security and
the practice and procedure for the service and
hearing of election petitions and matters incidental
thereto may be made by the Chief Justice. ,

88. If a candidate who has been elected is
certified by the Judge who tried the election
petition questioning the return or election of such
candidate to have been personally guilty or guilty
by his agents of any corrupt or illegal practice his
election shall be void. ;

84. Where on an election petition it 1s
shown that corrupt or illegal practices or illegal
payments or employments committed in reference
to the election for the purpose of promoting or
procuring the election of any person thereat have
so extensively prevailed that they may be reason-
ably supposed to have affected the result, his
election, if he has been elected, shall be void and
he shall be incapable of beiny elected to fill the
vacancy or any of the vacancies for which the
election was held.