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Subscription of nomination paperU.K.
7.—(1) The nomination paper must be subscribed by 2 electors as proposer and seconder, and by 98 other electors as assenting to the nomination.
(2) Where a nomination paper has the signatures of more than the required number of persons as proposing, seconding or assenting to the nomination of a candidate, the signature or signatures (up to the required number) that appear first on the paper in each category are to be taken into account to the exclusion of any others in that category.
(3) The nomination paper must give the electoral number of each person subscribing it.
(4) The police area returning officer—
(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 that was supplied by the police area returning officer.
(5) In this rule “elector”—
(a)means a person who, on the last day for the publication of notice of the PCC election, is registered in the register of electors in respect of an address that is within the police area in question, and
(b)includes a person then shown in the register as below voting age if (but only if) it appears from the register that the person will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll.
(6) But in this rule, “elector” does not include a person who has an anonymous entry in the register.
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