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Paragraph 53

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

After paragraph 24 (offences in connection with service declarations) of Schedule 9 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“24A

A person who makes a statement which he knows to be false in any declaration or form used for any of the purposes of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (as substituted by Schedule 2 to the Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 1987) or attests an application under that Part when he knows that he is not authorised to do so or that it contains a statement which is false shall be guilty of an electoral offence.”.