Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 748

The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1994

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1994 No. 748

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Whereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament;

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

    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1994.

    (2)  These Regulations shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

    (3)  These Regulations do not extend to Northern Ireland.

    2.    In regulation 5(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1986 (application of provisions of the Representation of the People Acts for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections)^[2], after sub-paragraph (ii)^[3] there shall be inserted:
"(iia) rule 22(1)(i) of the rules in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1983 is to that provision as amended by paragraph 83 of Schedule 19 to the Education Act 1993^[4];" .

    3.    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, in subsection (2) of section 76 (limitation of election expenses) of the Representation of the People Act 1983^[5], as substituted, for the words "£10,000" and "4.3p"^[6], there shall be substituted the words "£13,175" and "5.7p", respectively.

    4.    In the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1989^[7], regulation 2(a) shall be omitted.

Michael Howard

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office

13th March 1994

These Regulations, which apply in Great Britain, amend the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1986.

The amendment made by regulation 2 applies for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections (in England and Wales) the amendment made by Schedule 19 to the Education Act 1993 to add grant-maintained schools to the schools to which rule 22 of the parliamentary elections rules in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 applies. That rule enables the returning officer to use rooms in the premises to which it applies for the purpose of taking the poll at an election.

Regulation 3 increases 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. Regulation 4 omits the provision by which that maximum amount was last increased.

[1] 1978 c. 10; the title of this Act was 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. back

[2] S.I. 1986/2209; the title of this instrument was amended by the provisions referred to in the first footnote to these Regulations. S.I. 1986/2209 was also amended by S.I. 1989/633, and there have been other amendments to it which are not relevant to these Regulations. back

[3] Sub-paragraph (ii) was inserted by regulation 2(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/723). back

[4] 1993 c. 35. back

[5] 1983 c. 2. back

[6] These words were substituted by regulation 2(a) of the European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/633). back

[7] S.I. 1989/633. back