The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. The House of Commons

Collection:: Economics Books

Ch) THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. A person disqualified, if a member, vacates his seat and incurs a penalty of $200 a day’. Corrupt. 4. Persons guilty of corrupt practices at elections. Practices. . . . or (ae) If it be proved on the trial of an election petition that any corrupt practice has been committed by any candi- date, or with his actual knowledge, or if any candidate be convicted of bribery or undue influence, the election is void, and such candidate is to be incapable of being elected so the House for seven years”. (b) Persons other than candidates found guilty of corrupt practices are to be incapable of being elected to the House for a period of eight years®. 5. A revising officer cannot be a candidate for the slectoral district for which he is revising officer, nor for two years after he resigns his office ®. Other 6. Sheriffs, Registrars of Deeds, Clerks of the Peace Moers. ond County Crown Attornies are also disqualified ®. 4, MgrHOD OF ELECTION. Every writ for the election of a member is dated and is returnable at such time as the Governor-General determines. The day on which the nomination of candidates is to take place is mentioned in the writ, and such day must, in the case of a General Election, be the same for the whole Dominion, oxcept in the electoral districts in British Columbia and she districts of Algoma in Ontario, and of Gaspé, Chicoutimi and Saguenay in Quebec, where the day is fixed by the returning officer °. Form of The usual form of writ is as follows: — wt Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the faith. To the [Returning Officer] LR, 8. C.c. 8, 8.13. 8 Ib. 8. 98. 5 Th. o. 11. 8. 9.

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