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Legislative Council (Elections).


against this section and shall be liable on summary conviction
thereof to a-ine of two hundred and forty dollars or to
imprisonment for six months or to both such -fine and such
imprisonment.


- 72. (1) During the hours that the poll is open upon election
day no person shall upon any public road or in any public place
within- one hundred yards of any building in which a polling
station is sittate seek to influence- any elector to vote for- any
candidate or to ascertain for what candidate any elector intends
to vote or has voted--
 (2) Every -person who contravenes any of the provisions of
subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine of two
hundred and forty Rollars or to imprisonment for six months or to
both such fine and such imprisonment.

 PART VII.
 ELECTION PETITIONS.
 73. A petition complaining of an undue return or undue
election of a member of the Legislative Council, in this Ordinance
called an election petition, may be presented to the Supreme
Court by any one or more of the following persons, that is to say-
 (1) some person who voted or had a right to vote at the
 election to which the petition relates;
 (2) some person claiming to have had a right to.be returned
 at such election;
 (3) some person alleging himself to have been a candidate at
 such election.

 74. (1) The following provisions shall apply with respect to
the presentation of an election petition-
 (a) The petition shall be presented within twenty-one days
 after the return made by the returning officer of the
 member to whose election the petition relates, unless it
 concerns an allegation of corrupt practices upon the
 making of the return of election and specifically alleges
 a payment of money or other regard to have been made
 by any member, or on his account, or with his privity,
 since the time of such return, in pursuance or in
 furtherance of such corrupt practices, in which case the
 petition may be presented at any time within twenty-eight
 days after the date of such payment;
 (b) at the time of the presentation of the petition, or within
 three- days afterwards, security for the payment of all
 costs, charges and expenses that may become payable by
 the petitioner-


Influencing of
electors to vote
for any
candidate.


Petitions
against
disputed
elections.


Presentation of
election
petition and
security for
costs.


1951.