The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Made: 8th November 2013

Coming into force: 1st January 2014

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Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation

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Amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

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Amendment of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

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Signed

Andrew Robathan — Minister of State — 8th November 2013

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2013/1445.

[^f00003]: 2002 c. 24; section 6(5) was substituted by section 20 of the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 (c. 7) ; and section 7 was amended by section 22 of that Act.

[^f00004]: 2000 c. 41. Section 7(2)(a) was amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 (c. 24).

[^f00005]: Paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 was amended by section 27(2)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

[^f00006]: S.I. 2004/1267; these Regulations were amended by S.I. 2004/1374, S.I. 2004/1771, S.I. 2005/2114, S.I. 2009/813; S.I. 2010/1175, S.I. 2011/2085 and S.I. 2012/1809.

[^f00007]: Regulation 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/813 and amended by S.I. 2011/2085 and S.I. 2012/1809.

[^f00008]: Section 10(5A) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 (c. 24) is inserted by regulation 3 of the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (coming into force on 1st January 2014).

[^f00009]: Regulation 29 was amended by S.I. 2009/813.

[^f00010]: Regulations 76 to 76I were inserted by S.I. 2010/1175.

[^f00011]: O.J. L 329 30.12.1993 page 34; the Directive was amended by Council Directive 2013/1/EU, O.J. L 026 26.01.2013 page 27.

[^f00012]: Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2009/813. There have been no further amendments to Schedule 1.

[^f00013]: This sub-parcel will include ballot papers on which preferences are given only for ineligible candidates. This rule interacts with the definition of “preference” in rule 52 (as amended by regulation 12(5) of these Regulations). By that definition, a “next available preference” is a second or subsequent preference recorded in consecutive order for a continuing candidate, meaning a candidate who has not been deemed to be elected or excluded either as ineligible or under rule 59. At this stage of the count, an ineligible candidate will have been excluded (rule 55(1A)(a)). Accordingly, if a second, third or subsequent preference is indicated for an ineligible candidate, that indication will not count as a “next available preference”.

[^f00014]: This will mean that, where ballot papers have been transferred from an ineligible candidate to the “next available preference”, the references to a first preference vote in rules 52, 55(2), 57(1), 58(2), 59(2) and (10), 64(1) and 71(2) must be read as including that “next available preference”.

[^f00015]: Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/813.

[^f00016]: “Registered” in relation to nurses, means registered in the register maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001/253 by virtue of qualifications in nursing. (Schedule 1, Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)).

[^f00017]: 2001 c.3 (N.I.); section 3 was amended by S.I. 2007/3101.

[^f00018]: 1992 c.7 (N.I.); section 65 was amended by S.R. 2011/356.

[^f00019]: Sections 72 and 73 were amended by section 48 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2) and S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11). Section 72 was also amended by S.R. 2011/356. Section 73 was also amended by section 13 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13).

Editorial notes

[^key-353834c7ebe353af10b9f620c48724cb]: Regulations revoked (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))