C11C12 Part II The Election Campaign

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Pt. 2 (ss. 67-119) applied with modifications (E.W.) by The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987 (S.I. 1987/1), Rules, 2, 6

Pt. 2 (ss. 67-119) applied with modifications (E.W.) by The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986 (S.I. 1986/2215), Rules 2, 9 (which S.I. was revoked (2.1.2007) by S.I. 2006/3305, rule 1(4), Sch. 1)

Bribery, treating and undue influence

C2C3C1C4C5C6C7C8C9C10C13C14C15115 Undue influence.

1

A person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice if he is guilty of undue influence.

2

A person shall be guilty of undue influence—

a

if he, 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 that person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of that person having voted or refrained from voting; or

b

if, by abduction, duress or any fraudulent device or contrivance, he impedes or prevents F1, or intends to impede or prevent, the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or proxy for an elector, or so compels, induces or prevails upon F2, or intends so to compel, induce or prevail upon, an elector or proxy for an elector either to vote or to refrain from voting.