# Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992), Section 19: Penalty for forging or falsifying any voting list or obstructing the election.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

If any person do forge or in any way falsify any name or writing in any paper or list purporting to contain the vote or votes of any parishioner as aforesaid so voting for vestrymen or auditors, or do by any contrivance attempt to obstruct or prevent the purposes of such mode of election, the persons so offending shall, upon information laid, and conviction before any two or more justices of the peace having jurisdiction in the parish so adopting this Act, be liable to a penalty of not less than ten and not more than fifty pounds, and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six nor less than three months; and any fine so levied shall be given, half to the informer who shall have informed against the person so offending, and the other half to the poor of the parish in which the said offence shall have been committed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-19
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