Alternative qualification An Act to abolish the property qualification for members of Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. (1.) Subject as in this section mentioned, every person shall for member- be qualified to be elected and to be a member of a local authority ship of local who is at the time of election qualified to elect to any member authority 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 76. Short title. Extent. ship of that authority. (2.) For the purposes of this section the term "local authority" means, (a.) The council of a borough under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, or any act amending the same : (b.) In Ireland, the town council of any town corporate, commissioners appointed by virtue of an Act made in the ninth year of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to make provision for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of cities and towns corporate, and market towns in Ireland in certain cases," and any municipal town or township commissioners appointed under any general or local Act. (3.) The qualifications mentioned in this section shall be alternatives for and shall not repeal or take away any other qualification. (4.) Nothing in this section shall qualify any person for any office who is disqualified for the office by the existing law by reason of office, contract, bankruptcy, or any other matter of disqualification or disability. (5.) If a person qualified under this section ceases for six months to reside within the borough or district in which he has been elected to an office, he shall cease to be qualified under this section and his office shall become vacant, unless he was at the time of his election and continues to be qualified in some other manner. 2. This act may be cited as the Town Councils and Local Boards Act, 1880. 3. This Act shall extend to Ireland but not to Scotland. An Act to amend the law relating to the Conveyance of Voters to the Poll, and to continue the Acts relating to the Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections and the Acts relating to Election Petitions. Whereas by section thirty-six of the Representation of the People Act, 1867, it is enacted that it shall not be lawful for any candidate or any one on his behalf at any election for a borough, except certain boroughs therein mentioned, to pay any money on account of the conveyance of any voter to the poll, either to the voter himself or to any other person, and that any such payment shall be deemed to be an illegal payment, and it is expedient to amend such enactment: And whereas the acts mentioned in the schedule hereto expire on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and it is expedient to continue the same : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections and Short title. Corrupt Practices Act, 1880. 2. The thirty-sixth section of the Representation of the People Repeal of Act, 1867, shall be repealed, so far as concerns the conveyance of 8: 31 vict voters within any borough. & e. 102, as to payment of of voters to of law as to 3. In all elections whatever of a member or members to serve expenses of in parliament for any county, division of a county, or for any city conveyance or burgh, or district of burghs, in Scotland, no inquiry shall be the poll. permitted at the time of polling as to the right of any person to Amendment vote, except only as follows (that is to say): that the presiding parliaofficer or clerk appointed by the returning officer to attend at a mentary polling station shall, if required on behalf of any candidate, put Scotland. to any voter at the time of his tendering his vote, and not afterwards, the following questions, or either of them : 1. Are you the same person whose name appears as A. B. on [or for the ], or for the city [or burgh] of district of burghs [as the case may be]; or for the 2. Have you already voted, either here or elsewhere, at this election for the county of division of the county of [or for the ], or for the city [or elections in burgh] of or for the [as the case may be]: district of burghs Continuance of Acts. And if any person shall wilfully make a false answer to either of the questions aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a crime and offence within the meaning of "The Ballot Act, 1872” 4. This Act and the Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act, so far as they are unrepealed, shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and any enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner. INDEX. ABDUCTION. See Undue Influence. ABODE. See Place of Abode. Residence. ABSENCE, no disqualification to being registered as county voter, 136, 203 or borough voter, if he "reside," 203 no cause of ineligibility, 244 of objector, 162, 163 of mayor, alderman, or councillor vacates office, 249 ACCEPTANCE. See Office. ACT OF UNION, effect of, on disqualifications for Parliament, 237 Scotch, 251 (n.) ADJOURNMENT. See County Court. Nomination. Poll. ADMIRALTY. See Contractor. Dockyard. judge of, ineligible to Parliament, 213 secretaries of, eligible, 226 secus, clerks or deputies in office of Lord High Admiral, 229 commissioners of, eligible, 227 ADMISSION. See Freemen. ADVOWSON, right of, does not give vote, 27 AGE. See Infant. AGENCY, at common law, cannot be extended to illegal acts, 407 bribery may be proved before, 352 (n.), 376, 417 must formerly have been proved before treating, 391 secus, now, 391, 417 presumption of, how rebutted, 410, 418 whether late Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices Act will extends to illegal acts, 408 AGENCY-continued. principles of legal, 407, 408 Parliamentary, 408, 409 proof of, 409-418 employment as messenger does not constitute, 410, 411 corrupt practice may be proved before proof of agency, 417 AGENT-AGENTS. See Agency. whether may be appellant from Revision Court, 173 (n.) may not vote, 187, 188 to detect personation at poll, 268, 288 (n.), 297 sitting member or candidate liable for unauthorized acts of, 376, 391, 408 liability for acts of, in case of joint candidature, 392, 415 AGENT FOR ELECTION EXPENSES. See Treating. mandamus to compel appointment of, 321 (n.) all bills, &c., to be sent in to, except in certain cases, 322, 323 may provide conveyance for voters in counties, 376 and now in boroughs, 365, 325 in case of death, &c., of, another to be appointed, 322 no other agent may pay any expenses, 321 but other agents may be employed, and may recover expenses from payment to them evidence that candidate knew purposes, 322 (≈.) copies of which may be obtained from him, 323 (n.) name and address of, to be published by returning officer, 268, 321 although appointed, if money paid by candidate is spent in cor- need not be appointed until day of nomination, 322 AGENT FOR REGIMENT. See Militia. ineligible to Parliament, 228 AGREEMENT. See Contract for Sale. for lease (semble), gives no vote for county, 31 right to have lease conditional on happening of event, does not, to procure return, bribery, 239, 350, 351, 366, 367 effect of, on substituted candidate, 367 (n.) |