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12(1)Section 67 shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)After subsection (1) (name and address of candidate’s election agent) there shall be inserted—
“(1A)Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, the requirements of subsection (1) above in relation to those candidates are that not later than the time there mentioned—
(a)a person shall be named by or on behalf of the party as the election agent of all of those candidates; and
(b)the declaration required by that subsection shall be made by or on behalf of the party.”
(3)After subsection (2) (which makes provision for a candidate to name himself as his own election agent) there shall be inserted—
“(2A)Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, a candidate included in the list—
(a)must not under subsection (2) above name himself as his own election agent, but
(b)may be named by or on behalf of the party as the election agent of all the candidates included in the list,
and the provisions which have effect by virtue of subsection (2) above in relation to a candidate upon his naming himself as election agent shall also have effect in relation to a candidate upon his being named as election agent by virtue of paragraph (b) above.”
(4)At the beginning of subsection (3) (one agent only for each candidate) there shall be inserted “ Subject to subsection (3A) below, ” and after that subsection there shall be inserted—
“(3A)Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election—
(a)the same person must be appointed as election agent for all the candidates included in the list; and
(b)any such appointment may only be revoked by or on behalf of the party and in respect of all the candidates.”
(5)After subsection (5) (declaration of person other than the candidate as election agent) there shall be inserted—
“(5A)Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election, subsection (5) above shall apply in relation to the candidates included in that list as if the reference to a person other than the candidate were a reference to a person other than the candidate whose name appears highest on the list.”
(6)In subsection (7) (meaning of “appropriate officer” in Part II)—
(a)after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—
“(aa)in relation to an Authority election, the returning officer for that election (as determined under subsection (2B) of section 35 or, as the case may be, paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2C) of that section);”; and
(b)in paragraph (b), for “a local government election,” there shall be substituted “ any other local government election, ”.
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