Constitution (Verification of Petition) Act, 1944
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Offences and penalties. |
4.—(1) Every person who does any of the following things shall be guilty of a corrupt practice within the meaning of Part I of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), that is to say:— | |
(a) by signing a petition presented to the President under Article 27 of the Constitution falsely represents himself to be a member of Dáil Eireann or of Seanad Eireann, or | ||
(b) affixes to any such petition a signature purporting to be the signature of a person other than himself, or | ||
(c) makes, in a certificate affixed to any such petition, in pursuance of this Act, a statement which is to his knowledge false or misleading, or | ||
(d) does, in relation to the signing of any petition, anything which, if done in relation to voting at an election of a member of Dáil Eireann, would be either bribery as defined in the said Part I of the said Act or undue influence as so defined. | ||
(2) In the foregoing sub-section of this section the expression “petition presented to the President under Article 27 of the Constitution” shall be construed and have effect as including a document intended to be or prepared with a view to its being presented to the President as a petition under the said Article (whether such document is or is not subsequently so presented), and accordingly, if any person does, in relation to or in connection with any such document, any act which, if done in relation to or in connection with a petition presented as aforesaid, would render him guilty (by virtue of the said foregoing sub-section) of a corrupt practice within the meaning of Part I of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), such person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice within the meaning aforesaid. | ||
(3) Section 6 (except sub-section (2) thereof) of the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923 (No. 38 of 1923), shall apply and have effect in relation to a person guilty of an offence which is by virtue of this section a corrupt practice within the meaning of that Act in like manner as it applies and has effect in relation to a person guilty of an offence which is a corrupt practice by virtue of section 1 of the said Act. |