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PART I.
Corrupt Practices.
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Definition of corrupt practice.
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1.—(1) The expression “corrupt practices” as used in this Act means any of the offences stated in this section to be a corrupt practice, and any person who commits any of such offences shall be guilty of a corrupt practice.
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(2) The following offences as more fully defined in the following sections of this Part of this Act shall be corrupt practices, that is to say:—
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(a) bribery,
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(b) personation,
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(c) treating,
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(d) undue influence.
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(3) The following offences shall also be corrupt practices, that is to say:—
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(a) aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of the offence of personation;
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(b) knowingly publishing, before or during a Dáil or Seanad election, a false statement of the withdrawal of a candidate at such election.
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