What wasn't allowed in a pub in 1914? (part seven)

It's a pretty long list of inadmissible activities. And it will continue to get longer.

There were several activities relating to elections which were forbidden.

Elections.—Any licensed person who knowingly permits any part of his licensed premises to be used in any Parliamentary election as a committee room for the purpose of furnishing or procuring the election of a candidate, or in any election held under the provisions of the Municipal Elections Act, either as a committee room or for holding a meeting for such purpose is guilty of an illegal hiring.

If a licensed person is convicted of bribery or treating in reference to any election, and it appears that such offence was committed on his licensed premises, the conviction must be entered on the register of licences, and if it appears to an election court or election commissioners that a licensed person has knowingly suffered any bribery or treating in reference to any election to take place on his licensed premises, they must report the same, and the report must be entered on the Register of Licences.

Licensing justices are directed to take such entries on the register into consideration in determining whether they will or will not grant a renewal of the licence as to which the entry is made; and it is specifically provided that such entry may be a ground for refusing the renewal.

No poll at any Parliamentary election may be taken on any licensed premises unless by the consent of all the candidates expressed in writing.
Brewers' Almanack 1915, page 317.

So no election meetings and no bribery. The latter, I assume, relates to electors being given free beer to encourage them to vote for a specific candidate.

Those sort of rules didn't apply everywhere. For example, Austro-Hungary. Where Jaroslav Hašek, author of the Good Soldier Švejk, held meetings for his joke political party in a pub. A specific pub being selected because he fancied the landlord's daughter.

Why insist on all the candidates agreeing in writing to having a poll in a pub? Because in large number of elections one of the candidates would be a temperance twat and obviously object to the use of a pub. Meaning that rule pretty much excluded the use of pubs.