Unqualified persons sitting or voting

(1) Any person who sits or votes in either House knowing or having reasonable cause for knowing that he is not entitled to do so shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or such other sum as may hereafter be prescribed by the Speaker and the President, for every day he so sits or votes in that House. (2) The penalty referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be recoverable by action in the Supreme Court at the suit of the Attorney-General.