E-3.2 - Election Act

Section 492 Disposition versions

1985-03-13

492. Every person who

(1)  offers himself as a candidate, knowing he is disqualified;

(2)  supports a nomination paper, when he is not an elector and is not domiciled in the electoral division for which the nomination paper is filed;

(3)  uses the signature of others as support on a nomination paper;

(4)  collects signatures of support and falsely declares that he knows the persons whose names appear on the nomination papers, that they have signed in his presence or that they are electors of the electoral division;

(5)  collects signatures of support without being a candidate or mandatary;

(6)  signs as a candidate more than one nomination paper;

(7)  presents himself as a candidate of an authorized party, when the letter contemplated in section 172 is false;

(8)  knowingly spreads false news of the withdrawal of a candidate;

(9)  is a returning officer and accepts a nomination paper which is incomplete or not accompanied with all the required documents,

is guilty of an offence.

1984, c. 51, s. 492.