The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1898
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Credit: The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prohibition of Voting in more than one Parish.—Questions to Elector. 20.—(1) An elector shall not vote in more than one Parish in the Poor Law Union. (2) The Presiding Officer may, and if required by any parochial elector of the Parish or any polling agent appointed under Rule 19 shall, put to any elector at the time of his applying for a ballot paper, but not afterwards, the following questions, or one of them, and no other :—* 1 (a) Are you the person entered in the parochial register for this Parish [or Ward] as follows [read the whole entry from the register] ? 2 (b) Have you already voted at the present election of Guardians in this or any other Parish or Ward in the Union ? 3 (3) A person required to answer either of these questions shall not receive a ballot paper or be permitted to vote until he has answered it.4 from acting as agent for any candidate at such election. Any officer acting notwithstanding the prohibition will be guilty of misdemeanour; see Section 11 of the Ballot Act, 1872, post, p. 53, as adapted and applied by Buie 25, post, p. 31. , , A candidate may himself undertake any duties which might have been per- formed by an agent, and where he has not appointed an agent, he may be present at the counting of the votes ; see Buie 51, post, p. 62. Before acting pursuant to the rule, the candidate must make the statutory declaration as to secrecy required by Buie 54; see the proviso to Buie 51, added in the Order of February, 1897, post, p. 62. , . 1 Sub-rule 1 of the corresponding rule of the Order issued in 1* ebiuaiy 1897, provided that an elector shall not vote in more than one Parish in the Poor Law Union ; and Buie 31 (2), post, p. 37, prohibits a person from voting in more than one ward. See also the note to Buie 14 (2), ante, p. 22. 2 A person guilty of personation of a voter at the election of Guardians is punishable under Sections 86 to 89 of the Parliamentary Votes Begistration Act, 1843, which are applied by Section 24 of the Ballot Act, 1872, post, p. 54, as adapted by Buie 25, post, p. 31. . „ . , 3 Where a person applies for a ballot paper after another person has vote d as the elector he represents himself to be, the Presiding Officer is to administer the oath and proceed as prescribed by ltulc 27 of the Buies for elections of With'reganHo the voting by persons incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, by Jews when the poll is taken on a Saturday, and by voters who are unable to read, see Buie 26 of the Buies for elections of Guardians, 7,08 Ifa voter inadvertently spoils a ballot paper, he may obtain a fresh one upon