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 1918.

4. A proxy paper shall remian in force only so long as the parliamentary register of electors which is in force at the time the proxy paper is issued, remains in force:

Provided that a proxy paper issued during the continuance of the present war, or a period of twelve months thereafter, shall remain in force until the termination of that period, so long as the elector continues to be registered and the proxy paper is not cancelled.

5. A person shall not be appointed as proxy under this Act, unless the person appointed is the wife, husband, parent, brother, or sister of the elector, or is registered as a parliamentary elector for the constituency or one of the constituencies in which the elector is registered:

Provided that the brother or sister shall not be capable of being appointed proxy unless of full age.

6. An elector shall not appoint more than one person as proxy to vote on his behalf in the same constituency, and in any case not more than two persons.

7. A person shall not vote as proxy on behalf of more than two absent voters at an election in any constituency, unless that person is voting as the husband or wife, or the parent, brother, or sister of the absent voter.

8. A registration officer shall keep a list of absent voters entitled to vote by proxy in any constituency within his area, and of the persons entitled to vote as proxies, and that list shall be open to inspection during business hours at some convenient place named by the registration officer in the constituency.

A registration officer shall, on the application of any person, allow that person to take extracts from, or, on payment of the prescribcd fee, supply to that person copies of the list.

9. The Ballot Act, 1872, and any other Act regulating the holding of parliamentary elections, including any provisions imposing penalties in connection with voting at those elections, shall apply to persons voting as proxies in pursuance of this Act as they apply to voters, however described in those Acts, with such modifications as may be prescribed for the purpose of adapting the provisions of those Acts to voting by proxy; and any provisions of those Acts imposing penalties for offences in connection with ballot papers or the official mark on a ballot paper may be applied by the regulations to proxy papers and any official mark on a proxy paper.

10. If any person—

(a) who is for the time being entitled to vote by proxy in a constituency under this Act, himself votes or attempts to vote at anny parliamentary election in the constituency otherwise then by means of the proxy paper, while the proxy paper is in force: or

(b ) votes or attempts to vote as proxy on behalf of more than two absent voters at any election in any constituency unless that person is voting as the husband or wife, or the parent, brother, or sister of the absent voter; or

(c) votes or attempts to vote at any election under the authority of a proxy paper where he knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing that the proxy paper has been cancelled, or that the elector to whom or one whose behalf the proxy paper has been issued is dead or no longer entitled to vote at that election;