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(1)The trade union shall—
(a)provide every candidate with an opportunity of preparing an election address in his own words and of submitting it to the union to be distributed to the persons accorded entitlement to vote in the election; and
(b)secure that, so far as reasonably practicable, copies of every election address submitted to it in time are distributed to each of those persons by post along with the voting papers for the election.
(2)The trade union may determine the time by which an election address must be submitted to it for distribution; but the time so determined must not be earlier than the latest time at which a person may become a candidate in the election.
(3)The trade union may provide that election addresses submitted to it for distribution—
(a)must not exceed such length, not being less than one hundred words, as may be determined by the union, and
(b)may, as regards photographs and other matter not in words, incorporate only such matter as the union may determine.
(4)The trade union shall secure that no modification of an election address submitted to it is made by any person in any copy of the address to be distributed except—
(a)at the request or with the consent of the candidate, or
(b)where the modification is necessarily incidental to the method adopted for producing that copy.
(5)The trade union shall secure that the same method of producing copies is applied in the same way to every election address submitted and, so far as reasonably practicable, that no such facility or information as would enable a candidate to gain any benefit from—
(a)the method by which copies of the election addresses are produced, or
(b)the modifications which are necessarily incidental to that method,
is provided to any candidate without being provided equally to all the others.
(6)The trade union shall, so far as reasonably practicable, secure that the same facilities and restrictions with respect to the preparation, submission, length or modification of an election address, and with respect to the incorporation of photographs or other matter not in words, are provided or applied equally to each of the candidates.
(7)The arrangements made by the trade union for the production of the copies to be so distributed must be such as to secure that none of the candidates is required to bear any of the expense of producing the copies.
(8)No-one other than the candidate himself shall incur any civil or criminal liability in respect of the publication of a candidate’s election address or of any copy required to be made for the purposes of this section.
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