Legislative Council (Elections).1


S Custody of
ballot boxes,


 56. Forthwith upon making the return to the writ in
 accordance with the provisions of section 52 of this Ordinance the
-returning officer shall cause the ballot boxes used threat, with
their locks and keys, to be transmitted or delivered to the
Supervisor of Elections.


 PART VI.

 ELECTION OFFENCES.

Intoxicating 57. (1) No intoxicating liquor shall be sold, offered for sale,
liquor not to be or given-away, at any premises to which a licence issued under
sold or given on the Liquor Licences Ordinance applies at any time between the
polling day. opening and the closing of the poll on polling day.
Cap; 190.
Ord. No. 21 of (2) iNo intoxicating liquor shall be supplied to any person at
1936. any premises to'which a licence issued under the Registration of
 Clubs Ordinance applies, at any time between the opening and
 the closing" of the poll on polling day.
 (3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of
 either of the two last preceding subsections shall be liable on
 summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to
 imprisonment for six months.
 (4) In, this section, intoxicating liquor'" has the' same
 meaning as is assigned to the expression in the-dRegistration of
 Clubs Ordinance.

Employers to 58. (1) Every employer shall, on polling day, allow to every
allow employees elector in his employ the prescribed period for voting, and no
prescribed employer shall make any deduction from the pay or other
period for remuneration of any such elector or impose upon or exact from.
voting. him any penalty by reason of his absence during such period.
 (2T Any employer who, directly or indirectly, refuses, or by
 intimidation, undue influence, or in any other way, interferes
 with the granting to any elector in his employ, -of the prescribed
 period-for voting, as in this section provided, shall on summary
 conviction be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to
 imprisonment for six months.

Offences by 59. Every election officer who-
election (a) lakes, in.any record, return or other document which he
officers. is required to keep or make under this Ordinance, any entry
 which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false,
 or does not believe to be true; or
 (b) permits any person whom he knows or has reasonable
 cause to believe-not to be a blind person or an incapacitated
 person to vote in the manner provided for blind persons or
 incapacitated persons, as the case may be; or


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1951.