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Parliament Elections Act (No. 1 of 1981) - Sect 67

Certain persons not to canvass or act as agents

67.
(1) No person shall canvass for, or act as agent of, or speak on behalf of, a candidate, or in any way participate in an election, if such person is a person on whom civic disability has been imposed by a resolution passed by Parliament in terms of Article 81 of the Constitution, and the period of such civic disability specified in such resolution has not expired.
(2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.


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