Section 32
Section 32
Where, on application made, it is shown to an Elec-Pow~r to ex-tion Judge or to a Judge of the High Court by such evidence ~~i}:~~ocent as seems to the Judge sufficient-bein~ illegal pract1ce, etc.
(a)
that any act or omission of a candidate at any election, or of his election agent or of any other agent or person, would, by reason of being the payment of a sum or the incurring of expense in excess of any maximum amount allowed by this
Act, or of being a payment, engagement, employ-ment or contract in contravention of this Act, or of otherwise being in contravention of any of the pro-visions of this Act, be but for this section an illegal practice; and
(b)
that any such act or omtsston arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculations or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature, and in any case did not arise from any want of good faith;
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Authorised excuse for non-compliance with provi-sions as to re-turn and dec-laration re-specting elec-tion expenses
Election Offences and in the circumstances it seems to the Judge, after giving the candidates, the returning officer, and any elector within the constituency, electoral ward or electoral district an opportunity of being heard, to be just that the candidate in question and the said election and other agent and person, or any of them, should not be subject to any of the consequ-ences under this Act of the said act or omission, the Judge may make an order allowing such act or omission to be an exception from the provisions of this Act which would otherwise make the same and thereupon such candidate, agent or person shall not be subject to any of the consequ-ences under this an illegal practice, payment, employment, or hiring Act of the said act or omission.