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Parliamentary Elections Act 1868
Act of Parliament
Parliamentary Elections Act 1868
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for amending the Laws relating to Election Petitions, and providing more effectually for the Prevention of corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections.
Citation31 & 32 Vict. c. 125
Introduced byPrime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Commons)
Territorial extent 
  • England and Wales
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
[1]
Dates
Royal assent31 July 1868
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1993
Status: Repealed

The Parliamentary Elections Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), sometimes known as the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Act[2] or simply the Corrupt Practices Act 1868, is an act of the United Kingdom Parliament, since repealed. The effect of the act was to transfer responsibility for trying election petitions from the House of Commons to the judges of the High Court of Justice. The act was designed to, and did, provide a more effective measure for preventing corruption and fraud in parliamentary elections.

  1. ^ Britain, Great (1807). "Dublin Freemen Commission Act (32 & 33 Vict. c. 65)". The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1807–1868/69).
  2. ^ Morris, Caroline (2012). Parliamentary Elections, Representation and the Law. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8473-1936-4.

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