Paragraph 7 Nomination of candidates on a regional list
A registered party’s regional list of candidates to be regional members for a particular region shall be in the form H set out in the Appendix and that party shall be nominated by the submission of that list by the party’s nominating officer or a person authorised in writing by him to the regional returning officer at the place or a place fixed for the purpose.
Each regional list shall include the name of the registered party, or a description of that party which has been registered under section 28A of the 2000 Political Parties Act, and the use of that name or description shall be authorised by a certificate issued by or on behalf of the registered nominating officer of the party in the form I set out in the Appendix.
Each regional list shall set out the names and home addresses, in full, of each candidate included in that list and shall be accompanied by a statement of the names by which each such candidate is to be known for the purposes of the election, which may include a different forename or surname if the candidate commonly uses that name.
Each regional list shall include a statement that it is issued by the nominating officer of the registered party in question or by a person authorised in writing by him.
Each regional list may be accompanied by a request made by or on behalf of the nominating officer of the party in question that the regional ballot paper shall contain against the party’s name the party’s registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems).
In the application of this rule and rule 8, in relation to an election–
“registered party” and “qualifying party” means a party which was registered under Part II of the 2000 Political Parties Act on the day (“the relevant day”) which is two days before the last day for the delivery of nomination papers at the election; and
a registered political party is a qualifying party in relation to a constituency if the constituency is in Scotland and the party was at on the relevant day registered in respect of Scotland in the Great Britain register maintained under that Part of that Act.