The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2003

Incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice at European Parliamentary elections

124.—(1) References in this article to the 1983 Act are to that Act as applied by the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1986(1).

(2) Subject to the provisions of section 174 of the 1983 Act, but in addition to any punishment as provided by the preceding provisions of that Act—

(a) a person convicted of a corrupt practice under the 1983 Act shall be subject to the incapacities imposed by article 111(2), and

(b) a person convicted of an illegal practice under the 1983 Act shall be subject to the incapacities imposed by article 111(3),

as if at the date of the conviction he had been reported personally guilty of that corrupt or illegal practice.

(3) Section 174 of the 1983 Act shall apply to any incapacity imposed under this article as if the incapacity was imposed under section 160 of that Act.

(1)

S.I. 1986/2209.