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Paragraph 22 Further provision as to avoidance of recall petitions and striking off signatures

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In section 164 (avoidance of election for general corruption etc)—

(a)

for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

Where on a recall petition complaint it is shown that corrupt or illegal practices or illegal payments or hirings committed in reference to the petition for the purpose of promoting or procuring a particular outcome in that petition have so extensively prevailed that they may reasonably be supposed to have affected the result, that petition shall be void.”;

(b)

omit subsection (3).