A poll under the Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913 and a municipal election took place on the same day, in the same place, before the same presiding officers, and by means of the same ballot boxes, distinctively coloured ballot papers being issued to the electors who came to the polling stations. In an action for reduction of the poll in connection with the Temperance Act, on the ground, inter alia, that it was illegal to hold the two polls together, held ( aff. the judgment of the First Division) that the course adopted of taking the polls together was not in itself illegal.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor, Viscount Haldane, Viscount Finlay, Lord Dunedin, and Lord Shaw
Citations:
[1922] UKHL 48, 60 SLR 48
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Elections
Updated: 31 January 2022; Ref: scu.632812
