Officials not to act for candidatesE+W+S
69.—(1) If—
(a)any returning officer or local returning officer at a European Parliamentary election, or
(b)any officer or clerk appointed under the European Parliamentary elections rules, or
(c)any partner or clerk of any such person,
acts as an agent of a registered party which has submitted a list, a candidate on that list or an individual candidate in the conduct or management of the election, he shall be guilty of an offence, but nothing in this paragraph prevents an individual candidate from acting as his own election agent.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or, in Gibraltar, not exceeding £2500.