Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982
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No. 5/1982: PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982 |
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS |
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ACTS REFERRED TO |
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Number 5 of 1982 |
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PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1923 . |
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[19th May, 1982] |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: |
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| Amendment of Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 . |
1.—The Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 3: |
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"Definition of personation. |
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3.—A person who— |
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( a ) at an election applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be the name of a living person or of a dead person or of a fictitious person, or |
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( b ) having obtained a ballot paper once at an election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name (otherwise than under Rule 26 of Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 ), |
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shall be guilty of the offence of personation.". |
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| Short title. |
2.—This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982 . |
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