Regulation 18 Amendments to the 2004 Regulations

In regulation 28 (offences in connection with candidature), after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3)

An individual candidate or a candidate being nominated in a list submitted by a registered party at a European Parliamentary election is guilty of a corrupt practice if, in any document in which he gives his consent to his nomination in accordance with rule 8 of the European Parliamentary elections rules, he makes—

(a)

a statement of his date of birth, or

(b)

a statement as to his qualification for being elected at that election,

which he knows to be false in any particular.

(4)

For the purposes of paragraph (3), a statement as to a candidate’s qualification is a statement—

(a)

that he is qualified for being elected,

(b)

that he will be qualified for being elected, or

(c)

that to the best of his knowledge and belief he is not disqualified for being elected ”.