ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (b) bribery; (c) personation; (d) attempting to commit or inciting the commission of an offence specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); "council" means a municipal council, town council or rural district council established in terms of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] or the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] for any local authority area; "councillor" means a member of a council; “covering envelope” means the envelope referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section seventy-two; “designated magistrate” means a magistrate designated for the purposes of Part VI by the Minister to whom the administration of the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] has been assigned; “disciplined force’’ means any branch of the Defence Forces or the Police Force; “election” means— (a) the election of a member of Parliament; or (b) an election to the office of President; or (c) an election for the purposes of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] or the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15]; as the case may be; “election agent” means a person appointed in terms of section ninety-five as an election agent; “election expenses”, in relation to a candidate at an election, means all moneys expended or expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of that election by that candidate or on his or her behalf or in his or her interests, but does not include the sum deposited with the candidate’s nomination paper in terms of subsection (1) of section forty-seven or subsection (1) of section one hundred and five or any moneys expended or expenses incurred by or in the interests of a political party of which the candidate is a member if they do not relate directly to him or her; “election petition” means a petition referred to in section one hundred and sixty-seven; “election period” or “period of an election” means— (a) in the case of a Presidential election, the period between the calling of the election and the declaration of the result of the poll in terms of paragraph 3(1) of the Second Schedule; (b) in the case of a general election for the purpose of electing members of Parliament, the period between the calling of the election and the declaration of the result of the poll for the last constituency in terms of section 66(1); (c) in the case of an election to fill a vacancy in the membership of Parliament, the period between the calling of the election and the declaration of the result of the poll for the constituency concerned in terms of section 66(1); - 12 -