L-4.1 - Act respecting electoral lists

Section 402 Disposition versions

1980-08-15

402. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 393; 1979, c. 56, s. 256.

1977-12-31

402. (1)  Every candidate or person who afterwards becomes a candidate who, during an election period, by himself or by another or in any other manner that serves his interests, directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, or provides, causes to be given or provided, or is accessory to the giving or providing, or pays, wholly or in part, any expenses incurred to give or provide to or for any person, any meat, drink, refreshments or provisions, in order to be elected or to influence such person or another to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be guilty of an offence in this act called treating.

(2)  Subsection 1 shall not apply

(a)  to an official agent who supplies, as election expenses, food such as sandwiches, cakes, biscuits, and beverages such as tea, coffee, milk or non-alcoholic liquors at a meeting of electors held to further the election of a candidate during an election; or

(b)  to any person other than an official agent who, at his own expense, supplies food such as sandwiches, cakes, biscuits, and beverages such as tea, coffee, milk or non-alcoholic liquors at a meeting of electors held to further the election of a candidate during an election.

(3)  Every candidate who is guilty of such offence shall be liable, in addition to any other penalty to which he is liable for such offence under any other provision of this act, to a fine of two hundred dollars and, in default of payment of such fine, to an imprisonment of not more than six months.

(4)  Upon the trial of an election contestation, there shall be struck off from the number of votes given for such candidate one vote for each person who, according to the evidence adduced at such trial, has been guilty of accepting or taking such meat, drink, refreshments or provisions.

R. S. 1964, c. 7, s. 393.