Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828

Penalty for forging such ticket, or fraudulently voting.

22. Any person exhibiting a forged ticket or personating the true party named therein, or fraudulently procuring his vote to be registered without having a ticket, well knowing himself to be without a due qualification, and who shall be thereof convicted before any one justice of the peace within whose jurisdiction such offence may be committed, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, and in default of payment shall and may be committed to the next goal or bridewell within such jurisdiction, there to be kept to hard labour for six calendar months.