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306 that person shall be guilty of an illegal practice within the meaning at the, and the expression "illegal practice" shall be construed accordingly: Provided that the court before whom a person is convicted under this provision may if they think it just in the special circumstances of the case, mitigate or entirely remit any incapacity imposed by section ten of the.

11. A ballot paper shall not be delivered to a person who claims to vote as proxy for the purpose of so voting unless he produces the proxy paper to the presiding officer at the polling station, and such questions may be asked of any person at a parliamentary election who claims to vote as a proxy for any elector (in addition to those already authorised to be asked) as may be prescribed.

12. Stamp duty shall not be charged on any proxy paper under this Act.

13. A proxy paper may be cancelled by an elector by giving notice to the registration officer in the prescribed form.

14. A notice cancelling a proxy paper shall not take effect as respects any election unless it is received the registration officer before the day of nomination.

15. In the application of this schedule to Scotland this expression "the registration officer of the constituency in which the elector is registered" means "the registration officer of the regesitration area in which the elector is registered."

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Maximum Scale.

The expenses mentioned above in Part: I., II. and III. of this schedule other that personal expenses and the fee if any, paid to this election agent (not exceeding in the case of a county election seventy-five pounds and of a borough election fifty pounds without reckoning for the purposes of that limit any part of the fee which may have been included in the "new first above mentioned) shall not exceed on amount equal—

in the case of a county election to sevenpence for each elector on the register;

in the case of an election for a borough to fivepence for each elector on the register.

Where there are two or more joint candidates at an election, the maximum amount of expenses mentioned in Parts III. and IV. of this schedule shall, for each of the joint candidates, be the amount produced by multiplying a single candidate's maximum by one-and-a-half and dividing the result by the number of joint candidates.