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No justice, &c. under this Act to sit in Parliament.
No justice, receiver, policeman, &c. under this Act to vote, &c. at certain parliamentary elections.
Penalty, 100l.
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19. No justice of the peace or receiver appointed by virtue of this Act shall, during the continuance of such appointment, be capable of being elected or of sitting as a member of the House of Commons; and no justice, receiver, or person belonging to the police force appointed by virtue of this Act shall, during the time that he shall continue in any such office, or within six calendar months after he shall have quitted the same, be capable of giving his vote for the election of a member to serve in Parliament for the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, or Meath, or for the county of the city of Dublin, or for any city or borough within the said police district, nor shall by word, message, writing, or in any other manner endeavour to persuade any elector to give, or dissuade any elector from giving, his vote for the choice of any person to be a member to serve in Parliament for any such county, city, or borough; and if any such justice, receiver, or person belonging to the police force shall offend therein, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, to be recovered by any person who will sue for the same, by action of debt, to be commenced within six calendar months after the commission of the offence; and one moiety of the sum so recovered shall be paid to the informer, and the other moiety thereof to the receiver appointed under this Act, to be by him added to and applied as part of the funds for the purposes of the police under this Act: Provided always, that nothing in this enactment contained shall subject any such justice, receiver, or person belonging to the police force, to any penalty for any act done by him at or concerning any of the said elections in the discharge of his official duty.
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