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  "heading": "Penalty for unauthorised person sitting or voting.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who sits or votes in the Legislative Council knowing, or having reasonable grounds for believing, that he is not entitled so to do shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars for each day on which he so sits or votes.\n(2) The penalty referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be recoverable by action in the Supreme Court at the suit of the Attorney General.",
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