The deep-background reason being offered for the rule change is to prevent personation. |
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The strictest electoral laws in Europe were introduced on the back of false allegations of mass personation. |
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Voters are advised to bring some form of identification as checks are expected to be increased five-fold to prevent personation. |
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Research will have to be carried out on it and we may have to have stricter criteria to wipe out personation at polling booths. |
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The offence of personation will be amended to make it clear that it is a crime to use another person's identity to evade arrest or prosecution. |
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The legislation also proposes a few clarifications to the personation offence. |
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The crime of personation, for instance, directly targets the fraudulent impersonation of someone under certain circumstances. |
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Are you satisfied with the 10-year maximum sentence for what has been called personation and will now be called identity fraud? |
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Certain branches of the bank in question had been experiencing a rash of personation fraud. |
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Section 403 of the Criminal Code contains provisions dealing with fraudulent personation with the intent of gaining an advantage, causing a disadvantage or obtaining property or an interest in any property. |
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The misuse of another person's identity information, generally referred to as identity fraud, is covered by current offences in the Criminal Code, such as personation and forgery. |
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As it stands now, it is an offence in the Criminal Code, when an individual uses someone else's identity to commit a crime, such as identity fraud, personation and forgery. |
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Four voters have taken legal action against him over a series of allegations, including personation in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering. |
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A number of significant breaches of electoral legislation were observed, particularly in proxy voting as well as personation and failure to produce identity papers when signing election documents. |
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Currently, there are certain offences in the Criminal Code relating to the misuse of another person's identity information, such as personation and forgery. |
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In addition to the trafficking of persons or documents, documentary fraud, corruption, personation or money laundering, we now find certain offences that a corporation or its representative may be charged with as an employer. |
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