§ Lords Amendment: In page 16, line 14, after "offence" insert "or corrupt or illegal practice."
§ 5.18 p.m.
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALI beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
I would ask the House to consider this Amendment in conjunction with the subsequent Amendment; in line 17, to leave out "conviction whereof is a," and to insert "or practice entailing."
The two are little more than drafting Amendments. It so happens that some electoral malpractices or offences are not offences under the Indian penal code, that is to say, are not criminal offences, and it was for the purpose of making it 2524 plain that these disqualifications extend to any corrupt practices as well as to those practices which are criminal offences that these Amendments were inserted in another place.
§ Subsequent Lords Amendments, to page 26, line 26, agreed to.