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The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004
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Offences in connection with candidature
28.—(1) A person who makes a statement which he knows to be false in the declaration required by rule 9(2) of the European Parliamentary elections rules is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or, in Gibraltar, not exceeding £1000.
(2) A person who, at a general election of MEPs—
(a)consents to nomination as an individual candidate in more than one electoral region,
(b)consents to nomination as an individual candidate in an electoral region and consents to being nominated in a list submitted by a registered party, whether in that region or some other,
(c)consents to being nominated in the list submitted by more than one registered party in the same region, or
(d)consents to being nominated in the lists submitted by a registered party or parties for more than one region,
is guilty of an illegal practice.
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