Report of Judge as to illegal practice

19.-(1) At the conclusion of a trial of an election petition the Election Judge shall, subject to the provisions of section 18, report in writing to the Governor-

(a) whether any corrupt or illegal practice has or has not been proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge and consent of any candidate at the election, or by any agent of his, and the nature of such corrupt and illegal practice, if any; and

(b) the names and descriptions of all persons, if any, who have been proved at such trial to have been guilty of any corrupt or illegal practice.

(2) Before any person, not being a party to an election petition, nor a candidate on behalf of whom election is claimed by an election petition, is reported by an Election

Judge under this section, the Election Judge shall give such person an opportunity of being heard and of giving and calling evidence to show why he should not be so reported.

(3) When an Election Judge reports that a corrupt or illegal practice has been committed by any person, that person shall, save as provided in section 18, be subject to the same incapacities as if at the date of the said report he had been convicted of that practice, and a person shall likewise be subject to the same incapacities if he was a candidate at the election and the Election Judge reports that such corrupt or illegal practice was committed with his knowledge and consent by any agent of his.

(4) The Governor shall cause a copy of such report to be published in the Gazette, and it shall be the duty of the appropriate Registrar appointed under the provisions of the Registration of Electors Law, 1959, forthwith to peruse the report and forthwith to delete from the Register of electors the name of every person appearing from the report to be incapable of voting at an election.