The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2012

Amendments to the Mayoral Election Rules

5.—(1) Schedules 3 and 7 to the GLA Elections Rules (The Mayoral Election Rules), are amended as follows.

(2) After rule 7(3) (subscription of nomination papers) in each Schedule insert—

“(3A) A person must not subscribe more than one nomination paper at the same election.

(3B) Paragraph (3A) does not prevent a person subscribing a further nomination paper where the previously nominated candidate has either died or withdrawn.”

(3) After rule 10(2)(c) (decisions as to validity of nomination papers) in each Schedule, insert—

“(2A) If, contrary to rule 7(3A), a person subscribes more than one nomination paper the GLRO, in determining whether a paper is subscribed as so required under paragraph (2)(b)—

(a) must only take the person’s signature into account in respect of the first nomination paper delivered under rule 6(1)(b) on which the person’s signature appears,

(b) must, where the person’s signature appears on a nomination paper delivered subsequently, find that the paper is not subscribed as so required if the signature appears within the first 330 signatures on the paper, regardless of whether the paper contains more than 330 signatures.”

(4) In rule 10(6) (decisions as to the validity of nomination papers) in each Schedule, for “ballot paper” substitute “nomination paper”.

(5) In rule 17 (the ballot papers) in each Schedule—

(a) After rule 17(4) insert—

“(4A) If a candidate who is the subject of an authorisation by two or more parties under rule 6(7) so requests, the ballot paper must contain, against the candidate’s particulars, the registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the registered emblems) of one of those parties.”

(b) In rule 17(5) after the words “under paragraph (4)” insert “or paragraph (4A)”.