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THE POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES

OF AN ELECTION AGENT AND OF

A RETURNING OFFICER.

THE

POWERS, DUTIES & LIABILITIES

OF AN

ELECTION AGENT

AND OF A

RETURNING OFFICER

AT A PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

IN ENGLAND AND WALES

BY THE LATE

FRANK R. PARKER

FOURTH EDITION

(With a Summary of the Duties of a Registration Officer)

EDITED BY

OSCAR F. DOWSON

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

(Assistant Legal Adviser to the Home Office)

ASSISTED BY

H. W. WIGHTWICK

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

AND

CHARLES N. T. JEFFREYS,

OF THE FIRM OF SHARPE, PRITCHARD & CO.,
SOLICITORS AND PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS

London:

CHARLES KNIGHT & CO., LTD., 227, TOOLEY STREET, S.E. 1.

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PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

ERRATUM AND ADDENDUM.

P. 346, II. 20-21, omit the words "should be given as
early as possible after the close of the poll and."

P. 474, 1. 18, after
following:-

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"In Lewis v. Edwards (May 7th, 1925, unreported) it was held by the Divisional Court, on appeal from a summary conviction at Swansea, that a person aged 19, whose name was on the register and who had voted at a parliamentary election after warning by the presiding officer, was rightly convicted under C.I.P.P.A., s. 9. sub 1."

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working has failed to provoke any serious criticism of its provisions. Of the several amending enactments passed since 1919, and dealt with in their place in the text, only one provision need be mentioned, viz., The Representation of the People (No. 2) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 14), which amended Section 34 of the principal Act by defining the position of

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