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(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
(b) filling a public office, other than a public office the tenure of which is regulated
exclusively by or in terms of the Constitution, and, if he or she holds any such office,
the High Court may declare that that office shall be vacated by him or her as from the
date of his or her conviction.
PART XX
ILLEGAL PRACTICES AND OTHER OFFENCES
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Certain expenditure an illegal practice
(1) No person shall, for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate at
an election—
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