Acts, Rules & Regulations
Salient Features of Election Crime and Punishment Act, 2063
The following are regarded as electoral offences:
- Voting by an unauthorized person.
- Tarnish the reputation of a candidate or the candidate's family, use intimidation or fear and offer incentives to influence the voter's ballot.
- Selling or buying of votes through exchange of cash or commodity.
- Employees carry out an action in favour of or against a particular candidate.
- Possession of, display or use of explosives, chemicals, poisonous substance or weapons at the polling booths or at the time of vote counting.
- Seizing, looting or stealing of election material.
- Use of mikes or loudspeakers for other than the purpose of sharing information during General assembly.
- Sticking of bills, posters, graffiti, banners, etc for campaigns, apart from the campaign methods recommended by the Commission.
- Election Officer, Returning officer and monitoring teams may order the security personnel the arrest of anyone who acts against the constitution or order them to leave the place.
- Election Officer, Returning officer and Polling officer may charge a fine of 5 hundred to 10 thousand rupees for electoral offences. The penalty for such offences must be made public through newspapers or other means of mass communication.
- Serious nature of offences regarding the Constituent Assembly Election and action and settlement on Election annulment issues will be taken care of by the constituent assembly court.
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