The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004 No. 293

[F1 SCHEDULE 1 E+W+S EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS RULES

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

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 1 applied (with modifications) (18.2.2012) by The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (Council Tax Increases) (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/444), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 1 (with reg. 27)

PART 3 E+W+S CONTESTED ELECTIONS

CHAPTER 4 E+W+S Counting of Votes

[F2 Disqualification in home Member State E+W+S

60A.— (1) This rule applies where a candidate is a relevant citizen of the Union and, after the publication of the statement of parties and individual candidates standing nominated, the returning officer receives, under rule 9A(4), information that the candidate has been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate through a relevant disqualifying decision in the Member State of which the candidate is a national.

(2) Any votes given to the candidate are to be disregarded for the purpose of applying—

(a) rules 59 and 60, and

(b) subsections (5) to (9) of section 2 to the 2002 Act (voting system in Great Britain and Gibraltar).

(3) For the purpose of subsections (7) and (8) of section 2 of the 2002 Act, the candidate is to be treated as being omitted from a party’s list of candidates.]]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 rule 60A inserted (1.1.2014) by The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2876), regs. 1(2), 28