The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004

[F1 Attendance at allocation of seats E+W+S

58.— (1) The returning officer must make arrangements for making the calculation and allocation required by rule 59.

(2) No person other than—

(a) the returning officer and his clerks;

(b) the election agent of each registered party standing at the election or a person acting on his behalf;

(c) each candidate on the list of such a party and one other person chosen by each of them;

(d) each individual candidate and one person chosen by each of them;

(e) the election agent of each individual candidate or a person acting on his behalf;

(f) the nominating officer of each registered party which is contesting the election to the European Parliament in the electoral region;

(g) persons who are entitled to attend by virtue of any of sections 6A to 6D of the 2000 Act,

may be present at that calculation and allocation unless permitted by the returning officer to attend.

(3) The returning officer must give to—

(a) the election agent of each registered party standing at the election; and

(b) each individual candidate,

notice in writing of the place at which he will conduct the proceedings under rule 59 and of the time at which he will begin those proceedings.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (30.1.2009) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/186), regs. 1(2), 39, Sch. 2