AMENDMENTS MADE BY THE LOEDS
TO THE
POOR LAW GUARDIANS (IRELAND) BILL.
Note.—The
page and line refer to the Bill (6.)
as first printed
by the Lords.
The ivords in red ink are proposed to be added as an
amendment by the Commons.
Page 1.
Line 6, leave out (" 1884 ") and insert (" 1885 ") Page 2.
Line 20, leave out (cc eighty-four ") and insert (" eighty-live ") Leave out clauses 8.
and 9.
and insert clauses (A.)
and (B.)
(A.)
Sections three, four, and nine of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall offence* at ho incorporated in this Act, and shall apply to the election of poor
electlons-law guardians in the same manner as if elections of poor law guardians were expressly mentioned therein.
The following enactment shall he made with respect to persona¬ tion at elections of poor law guardians: A person shall he deemed to he guilty of the offence of persona¬ tion who fraudulently applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person for whom he is not entitled to act as proxy, whether that name he that of a person living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or, who having voted once in his own behalf at any such election, applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.
The offence of personation, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of the offence of personation by any person shall he a misdemeanour, and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, with or without hard labour.
It shall he the duty of the returning officer to institute a prosecution against any person whom
[Bill 245.]
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