E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 591 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

591. Every person is guilty of an offence who,

(1)  personally or through another person, in order to influence the vote of an elector, obtains or attempts to obtain his vote or incites him to abstain from voting by promising or granting him any gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit or by the use of threats; or who,

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

Every gift made or promised during an election period within the meaning of Chapter XIII of Title I by a candidate or a person who subsequently becomes a candidate, or in his name or in his behalf, 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 or beverages at a private assembly of electors held during an election to promote the election of a candidate ;

(2)  to a person other than an official agent who, at his own expense, provides food or beverages at such an assembly; or

(3)  to a person who accepts any food or beverages provided in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2.

1987, c. 57, s. 591; 1999, c. 25, s. 78; 1999, c. 40, s. 114.

1999-06-19

591. Every person is guilty of an offence who,

(1)  personally or through another person, in order to influence the vote of an elector, obtains or attempts to obtain his vote or incites him to abstain from voting by promising or granting him any gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit or by the use of threats; or who,

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

Every gift made or promised during an election period within the meaning of Chapter XIII of Title I by a candidate or a person who subsequently becomes a candidate, or in his name or in his behalf, is deemed, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, 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 or beverages at a private assembly of electors held during an election to promote the election of a candidate ;

(2)  to a person other than an official agent who, at his own expense, provides food or beverages at such an assembly; or

(3)  to a person who accepts any food or beverages provided in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2.

1987, c. 57, s. 591; 1999, c. 25, s. 78.

1988-01-01

591. Every person is guilty of an offence who,

(1)  personally or through another person, in order to influence the vote of an elector, obtains or attempts to obtain his vote or incites him to abstain from voting by promising or granting him any gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit or by the use of threats; or who,

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

Every gift made or promised during an election period within the meaning of Chapter XIII of Title I by a candidate or a person who subsequently becomes a candidate, or in his name or in his behalf, is deemed, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, 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, foods or non-alcoholic beverages as refreshments at a private assembly of electors held to promote the election of a candidate;

(2)  to a person other than an official agent who, at his own expense, provides such food or non-alcoholic beverages at such an assembly; or

(3)  to a person who accepts any food or non-alcoholic beverages provided in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2.

1987, c. 57, s. 591.