European Assembly Elections Act 1978

4 Double voting

(1) Without prejudice to any enactment relating to voting offences as applied by regulations under this Act to elections of representatives to the Assembly held in the United Kingdom, a person shall be guilty of an offence if, on any occasion when under Article 9 elections to the Assembly are held in all the member States, he votes otherwise than as a proxy more than once in those elections, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(2) The provisions of the [1949 c. 68.] Representation of the People Act 1949 as applied by regulations under this Act shall have effect in relation to an offence under this section as they have effect in relation to an offence under section 48(2) of that Act (double voting); and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, section 48(7) of that Act (which makes such an offence an illegal practice but allows any incapacity resulting from conviction to be mitigated by the convicting court) and section 155 of that Act (prosecutions for offences committed outside the United Kingdom) shall apply accordingly.