# Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, Paragraph 4A: Offences relating to applications for postal and proxy votes at a local election


(1) A person (“P”) is guilty of a corrupt practice if P—
(a) engages in an act specified in sub-paragraph (2) at a local election, and
(b) intends, by doing so, to deprive another of an opportunity to vote or to make for P or another a gain of a vote to which P or the other is not otherwise entitled or a gain of money or property.
(2) These are the acts—
(a) applying for a postal or proxy vote as some other person (whether that other person is living or dead or is a fictitious person);
(b) otherwise making a false statement in, or in connection with, an application for a postal or proxy vote;
(c) inducing the registration officer or returning officer to send a postal ballot paper or any communication relating to a postal or proxy vote to an address which has not been agreed to by the person entitled to the vote;
(d) causing a communication relating to a postal or proxy vote or containing a postal ballot paper not to be delivered to the intended recipient.
(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(b), property includes any description of property.
(4) In sub-paragraph (2) a reference to a postal vote or a postal ballot paper includes a reference to a proxy postal vote or a proxy postal ballot paper (as the case may be).
(5) For the purposes of this paragraph—
“postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a postal voter;
“postal voter” means a person entitled to vote by post at an election as an absent voter or as a proxy; and
“proxy postal ballot paper” means a ballot paper issued to a proxy postal voter.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1962/14/schedule/NINTH/paragraph/4A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-law-act-northern-ireland-1962/schedule-NINTH/paragraph-4A
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