Section 88Part 8 — Election Petitions
Avoidance of election for general corruption, etc.
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88. Where on an election petition it is shown that corrupt or illegal practices or illegal payments or employments committed in reference to the election for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of any person thereat have so extensively prevailed that they may be reasonably supposed to have affected the result, the election of that person, if that person has been elected, shall be void and that person shall be incapable of being elected to fill the vacancy or any of the vacancies for which the election was held.