E-3.1 - Election Act

Section 223 Disposition versions

1980-08-15

223. Every person who

(1)  being a candidate or later becoming a candidate, in order to influence the vote of an elector, obtains or attempts to obtain, by himself or through another person, his vote or incites him to refrain from voting by promising or granting him any gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit; or who,

(2)  in order to obtain or because he has obtained a gift, loan, office, employment or any other benefit, agrees to refrain from voting or to vote for a candidate, or incites a person to refrain from voting or to vote for a candidate,

is guilty of an offence.

Every gift made or promised during an election period by a candidate or a person later becoming a candidate, or in his name or stead, is deemed to have been made in order to influence the vote of an elector.

The first paragraph does not apply

(1)  to an official agent who provides, as election expenses, food such as sandwiches, cake and cookies and beverages such as tea, coffee, milk or soft drinks at an assembly of electors meeting to promote the election of a candidate at an election;

(2)  to a person other than an official agent who, at his own expense, provides food such as sandwiches, cake and cookies and beverages such as tea, coffee, milk or soft drinks at an assembly of electors meeting to promote the election of a candidate at an election; or

(3)  to a person accepting any of the food or beverages mentioned in subparagraph 1 or 2 of this paragraph.

1979, c. 56, s. 223.