86(1)Every employee who is a qualified elector shall, while the polls are open on polling day at an election, have three consecutive hours for the purpose of casting his vote, and if the hours of his employment do not allow for such three consecutive hours, his employer shall allow him such additional time for voting as may be necessary to provide three consecutive hours.

86(2)No employer shall make any deduction from the pay of any such employee nor impose upon or exact from him any penalty by reason of absence from his work during such consecutive hours.

86(3)Any additional time for voting shall be granted at the convenience of the employer.

86(4)This section extends to railway companies and their employees, except such employees as are actually engaged in the running of trains and to whom such time cannot be allowed without interfering with the manning of the trains.

86(5)Any employer who, directly or indirectly, refuses, or by intimidation, undue influence, or in any other way, interferes with the granting to any elector in his employ, of the consecutive hours for voting, as in this section provided, is guilty of an illegal practice and of an offence.