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No. 7 of 1954. Virgin Islands Constitution 65
and Ilections.

85. Every election petition shall be tried in

the same manner as an action in the Supreme
Court by a Judge sitting alone. At the conclu-
sion of the trial the Judge shall determine whether
the member of the Council whose return or
election is complained of or any, and what, other
person was duly returned and elected, or whether
the election was void, and shall certify such
determination to the Commissioner, and, upon his
certificate being given, such determination shall be
final; and the return shall be confirmed or altered,
or a writ for a new election issued, as the case may
require, in accordance with such determination.

_ 86. At the trial of an election petition the
Judge shall, subject to the provisions of this
Ordinance, have the same powers, jurisdiction and
authtrity, and witnesses shall be subpoenaed and
sworn in the same noanner, as nearly as circum-
stances admit, as in the trial of a civil action in the
Supreme Court, and such witnesses shall be subject
to the same penalties for perjury.

PART VI.
ELECTION OFFENCES.

87. (1) No intoxicating liquor shall be
sold, offered for sale, or given away at any prem-
ises situate in any electoral district in which an
election is being held, to which a licence issued
under the Liquor Licences Ordinance, .1913,
applies, at any time between the opening and the
closing of the poll on polling day.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provi-
sions of this section shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to
imprisonment for six months.

88. (1) Every employer shall, on polling
day, allow to every voter in his employ a reason-
able period for voting, and no employer shall make
any deduction from the pay or other remuneration
of any such voter or impose upon or exact from
him any penalty by reason of his absence during
such period,

VIRGIN
ISLANDS.

Trial of eleo-
tion petitions.

Powers of
Judge.

Intoxicating
liquor not to
be sold or
yiven on
polling day.

4/1918,

Employers
to allow eni-
ployees time,