Section 74B: Granting of relief by Supreme Court
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74B. Granting of relief by Supreme Court
(1) A candidate or an election agent may apply to the Court for relief.
(2) Where, in an application for relief under subsection (1), it appears to
the Court that an act or omission of any person, which would but for this
section be an offence of illegal practice under Part IV or V of the Act, arose
from inadvertence, or other reasonable cause and not from any want of good
faith, the Court may make an order allowing the act or omission to be an
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exemption from this Act making it an illegal practice, and upon the making of
the order, no person shall be subject to any of the consequences under this
Act in respect of that act or omission.
[S. 74B inserted by Act 15 of 1992.]
PART VI – GENERAL