Cap. 363 ст. 110Power of courts to exceptinnocentact from being illegal practice, etc.

Where, in any proceedings, it is shown to the Court by such evidence as seems to the court sufficient -

(a) that any act or omission of a candidate at any election, or of any other agent or person, would, by reason of being the payment of a sum or the incurring of expense in excess of any maximum amount allowed by these regulations, or of being a payment, engagement, employment, or contract in contravention of these regulations, or of otherwise being in contravention of any of the provisions of these regulations, be but for this regulation an illegal practice; and

(b) that any such act or omission arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculation or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature, and in any case, did not arise from any want of good faith, and under the circumstances it seems to the court, after giving the Attorney General an opportunity of being heard, to be just that the candidate at the said election and other agent and person or any of them, should not be subject to any of the consequences under these regulations, the court may allow such act or omission to be an exception from the provisions of these regulations which would otherwise make the same an illegal practice, and thereupon such candidate, agent, or person shall not be subject to any of the consequences under these regulations of the said act or omission.