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Paragraph 10 Other offences as to postal and proxy vote applications

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

(1)

A person (“P”) commits an offence if P—

(a)

engages in an act specified in sub-paragraph (2) at a PCC 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 local 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)

A person who commits an offence under sub-paragraph (1) or who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of such an offence is guilty of a corrupt practice.