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Provincial Councils Elections Act (No. 2 of 1988) - Sect 115

Power at Court to except innocent act from being illegal

114. Where, on application made, it is shown to an Election Judge or to a Judge of the Supreme Court by such evidence as seems to the Judge sufficient"
(a) that any act or omission of a candidate at an election, or of any of his agents or other person, would, by reason of being a payment, engagement, employment, or contract in contravention of this Act or of otherwise being in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, be but for this section an illegal practice; and
(b) that any such act or omission arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculations or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature, and in any case did not arise from any want of good faith,


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