ELECTIONS ACT 1958

ELECTIONS (CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS)
REGULATIONS 1981

GENERAL

Errors with regard to persons and places

28. (1) No error with regard to -

(a) the name of any person or place; or

(b) any particulars, or any description,of, or in respect of, any person or place,

mentioned in any document whatsoever prepared, issued or used under or for the purpose of these Regulations shall in any manner affect the validity of such document or the operation of these Regulations in respect of that person or place if the contents of the document are otherwise sufficient to identify that person or place.

(2) In this regulation -

"document" includes any writ, report, return, list, form, notice, notification, nomination paper. statutory duly don or other declaration, and any document of any other description or nature;

"error" includes any misnomer, misspelling, misprint, misplacement, mistake, inaccuracy, omission, of any other description or nature. and

"particulars" and "description" each includes anything stated or required to be stated in respect of any person or place in any document.

(3) In so far as this regulation applies to a nomination paper, the provisions of this regulation shall be construed as being in addition to, and in amplification of, and not in derogation of, the provisions of the provisos to regulation 4 (6A).

Publication of notice

29. Where any notice is required by these Regulations to be published and, in the opinion of the authority required to publish such notice, the prescribed mode of publication does not give sufficient publicity to the notice, such authority may, in addition to publishing the notice as required by these Regulations, exhibit copies of the notice in conspicuous places within the constituency to which the notice relates or take such other steps as may be deemed by such authority necessary for giving due publicity thereto.

Failure to comply with provisions of Regulations

30. (1) No election shall be invalid by reason of any failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations relating to elections if it appears that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in such provisions, and that such failure did not affect the result of the election.

(2) Where in these Regulations any act or thing is required or authorized to be done in the presence of the candidates or their agents the non-attendance of any candidate or agent at the time and place appointed for the purpose shall not, if that act or thing is otherwise duly done, invalidate that act or thing.

Punishment for making false declaration

31. If any person makes a false declaration under regulation 19 (7), subregulation 20 (1), he shall be guilty of an illegal practice for the purposes of the Election Offences Act 1954.

Revocation

32. The Elections (Conduct of Elections) Regulations 1959 [P.U.(A) 152/1978] and the Elections (Conduct of Elections) (Sabah and Sarawak) Regulations 1968 [P.U.(A) 110/1969] are revoked.