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Right to vote.
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85.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act and the regulations made thereunder, every person whose name is on the register of local government electors for the time being in force for a local electoral area, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote at the poll at a local election in that area.
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(2) For the purposes of this section a person's name shall be taken to be on a register of local government electors if the register includes a name which in the opinion of the returning officer or presiding officer was intended to be the person's name.
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(3) A person who has voted at a local election shall not in any legal proceeding to question the election or return be required to state for whom he has voted.
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(4) (a) A person—
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(i) who is registered in the register of local government electors for the time being in force for a local electoral area but is not entitled to be so registered, or
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(ii) who is not registered in that register,
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shall not vote at the poll at a local election in that area.
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(b) A person who contravenes paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
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(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed as entitling any person to vote who is not entitled to do so, or relieve him from any penalties to which he may be liable for voting.
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