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Uimhir 5 de 1982
AN tACHT CHUN DROCH-BHEARTA TOGHCHÁIN A CHOSC, 1982
[An tiontú oifigiúil]
Leasú ar an Acht chun Droch-bhearta Toghacháin do Chosc, 1923.
1.—Leasaítear leis seo an tAcht chun Droch-bhearta Toghacháin do Chosc, 1923, tríd an alt seo a leanas a chur in ionad alt 3:
“Míniú ar phearsanaíocht. | 3.—Aon duine a dhéanfaidh— |
(a) i dtoghchán, páipéar ballóide a iarraidh in ainm duine éigin eile, cibé acu is ainm duine bheo nó ainm duine mhairbh nó ainm duine bhréige an t-ainm sin, nó | |
(b) tar éis páipéar ballóide a fháil uair amháin i dtoghchán, páipéar ballóide a iarraidh ina ainm féin sa toghchán céanna (seachas faoi Riail 26 de Chuid I den Chúigiú Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht Timpeal Toghachán, 1923), | |
beidh sé ciontach i gcion pearsanaíochta.”. |
Gearrtheideal.
2.—Féadfar an tAcht chun Droch-Bhearta Toghcháin a Chosc, 1982, a ghairm den Acht seo.
Na hAchtanna dá dTagraítear | |
Number 5 of 1982
PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section | |
Acts Referred to | |
1923, No. 38 | |
1923, No. 12 | |
Number 5 of 1982
PREVENTION OF ELECTORAL ABUSES ACT, 1982
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:
“Definition of personation.
3.—A person who—
(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
(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),
shall be guilty of the offence of personation.”.
Short title.
2.—This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1982.