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Article 74 No payments for conveyance of voters

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If any payment or contract for payment is knowingly made, either before, during or after an Assembly election, for the purpose of promoting or procuring the giving of votes in a particular way on account of the conveyance of electors or their proxies to or from the poll, whether for the hire of carriages, or for railway fares, or otherwise—

(a)

the person making the payment or contract, and

(b)

if he knew it to be in contravention of this Order, any person receiving the payment or being a party to the contract,

shall be guilty of an illegal practice.