MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 4

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

In view of the forthcoming Municipal elections it may be well for our readers to be reminded —at least that portion of them which delights in the candid criticism of candidates for office through the medium of the correspondence columns of the public press—that last session an amendment of the law was carried which provides, under Section 17 of the “Local Elections and Polls Act, 1913,” that ‘“Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding £SO or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months who at any time after public notice has been given pursuant to section seven of the principal Act of any election and before the close of the poll, publishes or exposes, or causes to he published or exposed, to public view any document or writing, or printed matter containing any untrue statement defamatory of any candidate and calculated to influence the vote of any elector.”