C11C14C13C15C16C17C18C19C20C21C22Part II The Election Campaign

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C11

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(E.W.) by The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986 (S.I. 1986/2215), Rules 2, 9 (which S.I. was revoked (2.1.2007) by S.I. 2006/3305, rule 1(4), Sch. 1)

C21

Pts. 2, 3 applied (with modifications) (W.) (17.12.2021) by The Local Elections (Communities) (Wales) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1460), rules 1, 6(1) (with rule 2)

Bribery, treating and undue influence

C3C1C4C5C6C7C8C9C10C12C2C23C24C26C27C25115 Undue influence F3: local government elections in Scotland and Wales.

1

A person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice if he is guilty of undue influence F4in relation to an election in Scotland or Wales under the local government Act.

2

A person shall be guilty of undue influence F5in relation to an election in Scotland or Wales under the local government Act—

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.