The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

Interpretation of Part 2 E+W+S

31.—(1) In this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“appropriate officer” means the returning officer;

“candidate” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2) below;

“committee room” does not include any house or room occupied by a candidate as a dwelling, by reason only of the candidate transacting business there with his agents in relation to the election, and no room or building shall be deemed to be a committee room by reason only of the candidate or any agent of the candidate addressing in it electors, committee members or others;

“declaration as to election expenses” means a declaration made under regulation 52;

“disputed claim” has the meaning given by regulation 49(1) as extended by regulation 50;

“election expenses”, in relation to a European Parliamentary election, shall be construed in accordance with [F1 regulations 60 and 62];

“individual candidate” means a person to whom paragraph (2)(b) applies;

“money” and “pecuniary reward” shall (except in regulations 42, 77 and 78 and Schedule 6 to these Regulations) be deemed to include—

(a)

any office, place or employment, and

(b)

any valuable security or other equivalent of money, and

(c)

any valuable consideration,

and expressions referring to money shall be construed accordingly;

“payment” includes any pecuniary or other reward;

“personal expenses” as used with respect to the expenditure of a candidate in relation to any European Parliamentary election includes the reasonable travelling expenses of the candidate, and the reasonable expenses of his living at hotels or elsewhere for the purposes of and in relation to the election; and

“return as to election expenses” means a return (including the bills and receipts to be delivered with it) to be made under regulation 51(1).

(2) A person becomes a candidate at an election—

(a) in the case of a person included in the list of candidates of a registered party to accompany its nomination for election, on the day on which the list is submitted by the party; or

(b) in the case of a person not included in the list of candidates of a registered party to accompany its nomination for election—

(i) on the last day for publication of the notice of the election if on or before that day he is declared by himself or by others to be a candidate at the election, and

(ii) otherwise, on the day on which he is so declared by himself or by others or on which he is nominated as a candidate at the election (whichever is the earlier).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 31(1) substituted (30.1.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/186), regs. 1(2), 20