 | Great Britain - 1872 - 124 pages
...thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years together with hard labour. It shall be the duty of the returning officer to institute...of the offence of personation by any person, at the election for which he is returning officer, and the costs and expenses of the prosecutor and the witnesses... | |
 | William Andrews Holdsworth - Ballot - 1872 - 176 pages
...voted." Upon the whole, therefore, a returning officer cannot be advised to order an alleged The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling,...commission of the offence of personation by any person, shall be a felony, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment, for a term not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1872 - 1122 pages
...therefore, would make the offence of personating a voter a misdemeanour, and under its provisions it would be the duty of the returning officer to institute a prosecution against any person whom he might deem to have been guilty of personation. The returning officer would be protected from the pecuniary... | |
 | Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, Sir Henry Denis Le Marchant - Election law - 1874 - 348 pages
...thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years together with hard labour. It shall be the duty of the returning officer to institute...of the offence of personation by any person, at the election for which he is returning officer, and the costs and expenses of the prosecutor and the witnesses... | |
 | Henry Jeffreys Bushby, Henry Hardcastle - Election law - 1874 - 356 pages
...shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, together with hard labour. It is the duty of the Returning Officer to institute a prosecution...person whom he may believe to have been guilty of this offence at the election for which he is Returning Officer, and the costs and expenses of the prosecutor... | |
 | Henry C. Greenwood, Temple C. Martin - Justices of the peace - 1874 - 994 pages
...once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name. The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling,...commission of the offence of personation by any person, shall bo a Felony (*). 35 & 36 VlOT. 0. 60. Municipal 1, 2. [Preliminary, — The " Corrupt Practices... | |
 | John Wade - English law - 1874 - 1018 pages
...duty of the returning officer M institute a prosecution asrainst any person whom he may believi- ti have been guilty of personation, or of aiding, abetting,...procuring the commission of the offence of personation bj anj person, at the election for which he is returning officer, and tb< costs and expenses of the... | |
 | Great Britain, Sir Hugh Owen - Educational law and legislation - 1875 - 574 pages
...at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own uamc. " The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling,...commission of the offence of personation by any person, shall be a felony, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1875 - 722 pages
...of the 1st of November. Hopwood was for the prosecution. Leresche was for the defence. " The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling,...procuring the commission of the offence of personation, shall be a felony ; and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not... | |
 | Louis Bingham Gaches - Municipal government - 1875 - 342 pages
...voted once at the election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name. The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling...procuring the commission of the offence of personation of any person, shall be a felony; and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment... | |
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It shall be the duty of the returning officer to institute a prosecution against any person whom he may believe to have been guilty of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation by any person... 
