RECALL ELECTION

(a) the member of Parliament for the electoral district shall cease to hold office; and

(b) the second ballots shall be counted.

(a) the Canada Elections Act, as far as it is applicable and with the necessary modifications, applies to a recall election under this Act as if the recall election were a by-election; and

(b) subject to such adaptations as are made by the regulations, the recall election shall be held in the manner provided in the Canada Elections Act for the conduct of a by-election.

REGULATIONS AND FORMS

(a) applying, for the purpose of this Act, with or without modifications, provisions of any regulation made under the Canada Elections Act;

(b) prescribing the time at which, and the manner in which, special voters may vote at a recall election, whether or not at a polling place and whether within or outside Canada;

(c) prescribing conditions upon or subject to which special voters may vote at a recall election;

(d) prescribing, for the purposes of a recall election, different methods of voting for different classes of special voters;

(e) providing for the modification of any provision of the Canada Elections Act in order to adapt it to the carrying out of a recall election in accordance with the other provisions of this Act; and

(f) providing for any other matter necessary to give full effect to the provisions of this Act or its administration.

OFFENCES

(a) in any way interferes with any voter, either in the polling station or while the voter is on the way to the polling station, with the intention of influencing the voter or advising the voter as to the vote;

(b) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held, participates in any demonstration or procession having direct or indirect reference to the recall election, by any means whatsoever;

(c) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held, makes any statement having direct or indirect reference to the recall election by means of any loudspeaker or public address apparatus or radio or television apparatus other than a publication by radio or television broadcast made by a broadcaster within the meaning of section 2 of the Broadcasting Act of

(i) an advertisement placed by the Chief Electoral Officer or a returning officer,

(ii) a non-partisan advertisement broadcast, as a community service, by a broadcaster within the meaning of section 2 of the Broadcasting Act, or

(iii) news in relation to the recall election;

(d) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the recall election is held, conducts, in relation to the recall, a public opinion poll of persons voting before the day on which the election is held;

(e) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held, conducts a public opinion poll in relation to the recall;

(f) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held or at any time on any of the three days immediately preceding that day, prints or distributes or delivers to any person anything being or purporting to be in imitation of the voting paper to be used at the poll, together with any direction or indication as to the answer for which any voter should or should not vote, or in any way containing any such direction or indication, or having on it any matter likely to influence any vote;

(g) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held, exhibits in or in view of any public place, or publishes, distributes or broadcasts

(i) any statement advising or intended or likely to influence a voter as to the way the voter should or should not vote,

(ii) any statement advising or intended or likely to influence any voter to abstain from voting, or

(iii) any statement, name, emblem, slogan, or logo identified with the recall, other than

(A) a statement, name, emblem, slogan or logo in a newspaper published before 6 p.m. on the day before the day on which the election is held, or

(B) a statement, name, emblem, slogan or logo that does not relate specifically to the election and that is so exhibited before the day on which the election is held in a fixed position and in relation to the national or regional or campaign headquarters, other than a mobile headquarters, of a proponent of any answer to a question to which the recall relates, and is left exhibited on the day on which the election is held;

(h) at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the election is held, exhibits in or in view of any public place or distributes any ribbons, streamers, rosettes, or items of a similar nature in colours that are identified with the recall, other than

(i) ribbons, streamers, rosettes or items of a similar nature worn or displayed by any person, other than an election official, on the person or on any vehicle, in colours that are identified with the election, or

(ii) a lapel badge worn by any person other than an election official;

(i) exhibits or leaves in any polling booth any card or paper having on it any direction or indication as to how any person should vote or as to the method of voting; or

(j) subject to any regulations made under this Act, at any time before the close of the poll on the day on which the recall is held, within, or at the entrance to, or in the vicinity of, any polling place

(i) gives or offers to give any person any written or oral information as to any name or number on the official list of electors or any supplementary list being used at the election, or

(ii) permits or offers to permit any person to examine any copy of the official list of electors or any supplementary list being used at the election.

(a) the exhibition was inadvertent; and

(b) the accused caused the exhibition to cease as soon as the accused was notified by a returning officer or deputy returning officer that the exhibition was taking place.

(a) any statement advising or intended or likely to influence any elector to abstain from voting; or

(b) any name, emblem, slogan, or logo identified with the election exhibited in or in view of any public place.