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—When a person who has lost an election considers that there is sufficient reason to make void the election of the person in the respective election district, he may institute a suit in a Court of Appeal against the elected person, within thirty days from the day of the notification of the name of the elected person as mentioned in.

No suit brought after the expiration of the above mentioned period shall be entertained.

—The plaintiff shall, simultaneously with the filing of his petition, deposit as security in the Clerk’s Bureau of the Court of Appeal three hundred yen in cash or Public Bonds of equal value.

—In case the judgment has been given against the plaintiff, should he fail to pay the whole amount of the legal costs within seven days from the day on which the judgment was delivered, the security money shall he appropriated for the purpose, and should there still remain any deficiency, the required amount shall be charged to the plaintiff.

—In case two or more than two plaintiffs have brought a suit against one and the same elected person, the Court of Appeal may deliver judgment to all the plaintiffs by one and the same document.

—Should the House of Representatives be ordered to dissolve while the trial is going on, the Court of Appeal shall dismiss the suit.

—When the plaintiff withdraws his suit, he shall give public notice of the fact though the medium of a newspaper or by some other method.

—In trying a suit about an election, a Court of Appeal may directly deliver judgment on those offenders against the Criminal Law or the present Law, who are connected with the suit at issue. In this case, however, the Public Prosecutors must be present.

In case he is not connected with a suit about an election an offender against the present Law shall be tried in the Criminal Court having jurisdiction over him.

—When a suit about an election is decided in a Court of Appeal, a copy of the judgment shall be sent to the Minister of State for Home Affairs; and on the opening of the House of Representatives, another copy shall be sent to the President thereat.

—Against the judgment of a Court of Appeal on a suit about an election, an appeal may be made for revision to the Court of Cassation.

—An elected person, who is the object of suit, shall not lose the right of a seat in the House of Representatives, pending the final decision of the Court of Law.

—In connection with a suit about an election, in all matters not provided for in the present Chapter, the process of ordinary legal proceeding shall he followed.

—Any person, who has effected the insertion of his name in the electoral list by fraudulently falsifying the amount of his tax paid, his age, residence, or any other facts necessary for the qualifications of an elector shall be liable to a fine of not less than four yen and of not more than forty yen.