Legislative Council (Elections).


(7) Every person who, after any election, directly or
 indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his
 behalf, receives any money or valuable consideration on
 account of any person having voted or refrained from
 voting or having induced any other person to vote or
 refrain from voting at any such ejection.
(8) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not extend
 or be construed toextend to any money paid or agreed to
 be paid for or on account of any legal expenses incurred
 in good faith at or concerning an election.
(9) For the purposes of this section "legal expenses" includes-
 (a) the payment of the agents, clerks, canvassers and
 messengers of candidates;
 (b) payments made-for the purpose of hiring vehicles for
 the conveyance of electors to or from a polling
 station;
 (c) payments made for the use of any premises for a
 public meeting in furtherance of the candidature of
 any person or for the use of any committee room or
 office for the purpose rf promoting or procuring the
 .election of a candidate;
 (d) payments made in respect of postag?, stationery,
 printing, advertising, the distribution of advertising
 material and the use of any public address system.


 62. The following persons shall be deemed guilty of treating
within the meaning of this Ordinance :--
 (1) Every person who corruptly, by himself or by any other
 person, either before, during, or after an election, directly
 or indirectly, gives, or provides or pays wholly or in part
 the expenses of giving or providing any food, drink
 entertainment, or provision to or for any person for the
 purpose of corruptly influencing that person, or any other
 person, to vote or to refrain from voting at such election,
 or on account of such person or any other person having
 voted or refrained from voting at such election.
 (2) Every voter who corruptly accepts or takes any such food,
 drink, entertainment or provision.

 63. Every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or by
any other person on his behalf, makes use of or threatens to make
use of any force, violence, or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to
inflict, by himself or by any other person any temporal or spiritual.
injury, damage, harm, or loss upon or against any person, in order
to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting or
on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting
at any election, or who by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent
contrivance, inipedes or prevents the free exercise of the franchise
of any elector, or thereby compels, induces, or prevails upon any


Definition of
treating.












Definition of
undue
influence.


1951.


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