{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-3C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed/section-3C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/10",
  "legislation_title": "European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-assembly-elections-act-1978-repealed",
  "path": "section/3C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3C",
  "heading": "Franchise.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall be entitled to vote as an elector at a European Parliamentary election in an electoral region if he is within any of subsections (2) to (5) below.\n(2) A person is within this subsection if on the day of the poll he would be entitled to vote as an elector at a parliamentary election in a parliamentary constituency wholly or partly comprised in the electoral region, and—\n(a) the address in respect of which he is registered in the relevant register of parliamentary electors is within the electoral region, or\n(b) his registration in the relevant register of parliamentary electors results from an overseas elector’s declaration which specifies an address within the electoral region.\n(3) A person is within this subsection if—\n(a) he is a peer who on the day of the poll would be entitled to vote at a local government election in an electoral area wholly or partly comprised in the electoral region, and\n(b) the address in respect of which he is registered in the relevant register of local government electors is within the electoral region.\n(4) A person is within this subsection if he is entitled to vote in the electoral region by virtue of section 3(2) to (9) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (peers resident outside the United Kingdom).\n(5) A person is within this subsection if he is entitled to vote in the electoral region by virtue of the European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001 (relevant citizens of the European Union).\n(6) Subsection (1) shall have effect subject to any provision of regulations made under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 which provides for alterations made after a specified date in a register of electors to be disregarded.\n(7) In subsection (3) “local government election” includes a municipal election in the City of London (that is, an election to the office of mayor, alderman, common councilman or sheriff and also the election of any officer elected by the mayor, aldermen and liverymen in common hall).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-3D substituted for ss. 1-3 (16.3.1999 for specified purposes only and 1.5.1999 otherwise) by c. 1, s. 1; S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1)(2) (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3C(5) substituted (9.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1184, reg. 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/10/section/3C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:09.782128+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}