The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2007

Subscription of nomination papers U.K.

7.—(1) The nomination paper of a candidate must be subscribed by at least 330 persons each of whom is entitled to vote at the election; and in relation to each London borough and the City, at least ten of the subscribers must be electors who are ordinarily resident in the borough or, as the case may be, the City.

(2) Where a nomination paper has the signatures of more than the required number of persons as assenting to the nomination of a candidate, the signatures (up to the required number) appearing first on the paper must be taken into account to the exclusion of any others.

(3) The nomination paper must give the electoral number of each person subscribing it.

[F1 (3A) A person must not subscribe more than one nomination paper at the same election.

(3B) Paragraph (3A) does not prevent a person subscribing a further nomination paper where the previously nominated candidate has either died or withdrawn.]

(4) The GLRO—

(a) must supply any elector with as many forms of nomination paper and forms of consent to nomination as may be required at the place and during the time for delivery of nomination papers, and

(b) must, at any elector's request, prepare a nomination paper for signature,

but it is not necessary for a nomination or consent to nomination to be on a form supplied by the GLRO.

(5) In this rule—

“elector” means a person named as a local government elector in the register being used at the election in that Assembly constituency, and includes a person shown in the register as below voting age if it appears from the register that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll, but does not include a person who has an anonymous entry in the register.

“electoral number” means—

(a)

a person's number in that register, or

(b)

pending publication of the register, his number (if any) in the electors list for that register.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 rule 7(3A)(3B) inserted (1.3.2012) by The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2012 (S.I. 2012/198), rules 1(1), 5(2)