Version Superseded: 15/09/2014
Point in time view as at 30/04/2004. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004, Section 80.
80.—(1) A European Parliamentary election petition may be presented by one or more of the following persons—
(a)a person who voted as an elector at the election or who had a right so to vote; or
(b)a person claiming to have had a right to be elected or returned at the election; or
(c)a person alleging himself to have been a candidate at the election.
(2) If the petition complains of the conduct of the returning officer, the officer in question shall be deemed to be the respondent, together with any MEP returned at the election.
(3) The petition shall be in the prescribed form, state the prescribed matters and be signed by the petitioner, or all the petitioners if more than one, and shall be presented to the High Court.
(4) The petition shall be presented by delivering it to the prescribed officer or otherwise dealing with it in the prescribed manner; and the prescribed officer shall send a copy of it to the returning officer, who shall forthwith publish it in the electoral region.
(5) The petition shall be served in such manner as may be prescribed.
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