ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008)
(c) makes any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement to or for any
person in order to induce such person to procure or to endeavour to procure the
return of a candidate at an election or the vote of a voter at an election; or
(d) upon or in consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or
agreement, procures or engages or promises or endeavours to procure, the return of a
candidate at an election or the vote of a voter at an election; or
(e) advances or pays any money to or for the use of any other person, with the intent
that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at an election, or
who knowingly pays any money to any person in discharge or repayment of any
money wholly or in part expended in bribery at an election; or
(f) before or during an election, receives or contracts for any money or loan for himself
or herself or for any other person for voting or agreeing to vote or for refraining or
agreeing to refrain from voting at an election; or
(g) after an election receives any money on account of any person having voted or
refrained from voting or having induced any other person to vote or refrain from
voting at an election; or
(h) conveys or transfers any property or pays any money to any person for the purpose
of enabling him or her to be registered as a voter, thereby to influence his or her vote
at a future election, or pays any money on behalf of a voter for the purpose of
inducing him or her to vote or refrain from voting;
shall be guilty of the offence of bribery and liable to a fine not exceeding level seven or to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.
(2) Nothing in subsection (l) shall be construed as applying to any money paid or agreed
to be paid for or on account of any expenditure bona fide and lawfully incurred in respect of
the conduct or management of an election.
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Personation
Any person who—
(a) at an election applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, living or
dead, or a fictitious person; or
(b) having voted once at an election, applies again at the same election for a ballot
paper; or
(c) not being entitled to do so in terms of section seventy-five, marks a postal ballot
paper so as to indicate thereon a vote for a candidate;
shall be guilty of the offence of personation and liable to a fine not exceeding level seven or
to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.
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Additional penalties for corrupt practices
Any person convicted of a corrupt practice by the High Court may, in addition to any
other punishment, be declared to be incapable, for a period not exceeding five years from the
date of his or her conviction, of—
(a) being registered as a voter or voting at an election; or
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