The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made: 10th April 1989

Coming into force: 10th April 1989

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978[^f00001], I hereby make the following Regulations:

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European ParliamentaryElections (Amendment) Regulations 1989.

• (2) These Regulations shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

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In the right-hand column of Schedule 1 (application with modifications of provisions of the Representation of the People Acts) to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1986[^f00002]:

• (a) in subsection (2) of section 76 (limitation of election expenses) of the Representation of the People Act 1983[^f00003], as substituted for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections, for the words “£8,000” and “3.5p” there shall be substituted the words “£10,000” and “4.3p”, respectively; and

• (b) in the modification of rule 9(1) (deposit) of the rules in Schedule 1 to that Act[^f00004], in its application for those purposes, for the words “£750” there shall be substituted the words “£1,000”.

Signed

Douglas Hurd — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 10th April 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in Great Britain, amend the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1986. They increase the maximum amount of a candidate’s election expenses at a European Parliamentary election. The maximum amount of a candidate’s election expenses is made up of a fixed sum (expressed in pounds) plus a sum expressed in pence (and fractions of pence) for each entry in the register of electors.

These Regulations also increase from £750 to £1,000 the sum which must be deposited with the returning officer by or on behalf of a candidate at a European Parliamentary election. A person cannot be validly nominated as a candidate at such an election unless this deposit has been made.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 10: the citation of this Act has been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act (Cmnd. 9758) on 1st July 1987.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/2209; the citation of this instrument has been amended by the provisions referred to in the first footnote to these Regulations.

[^f00003]: 1983 c. 2.

[^f00004]: Rule 9 was amended by section 13(a) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50).