The European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001

Relevant citizens of the Union as European Parliamentary electors

3.—(1) A person is entitled to vote as an elector at a European Parliamentary election in an electoral region if on the date of the poll he—

(a)is registered in the region in the register of relevant citizens of the Union entitled to vote at European Parliamentary elections (maintained under regulation 5(2) below);

(b)is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart);

(c)is a relevant citizen of the Union; and

(d)is of voting age (that is, 18 years or over).

(2) A person is not entitled to vote as an elector—

(a)more than once in the same electoral region at any European Parliamentary election, or

(b)in more than one electoral region at a European Parliamentary general election.

(3) In this regulation “legal incapacity” has the same meaning in relation to European Parliamentary elections as it has in the 1983 Act in relation to parliamentary elections.