{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-2/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-2/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/1",
  "legislation_title": "European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In paragraph 5—\n(a) for “representative to”, in each place, substitute “ Member of ”,\n(b) for “constituency”, in each place where it occurs in relation to a European Parliamentary constituency, substitute “ electoral region ”,\n(c) for sub-paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) If a person who is disqualified under this paragraph for the office of MEP is returned as an MEP under—\n(a) section 3, or\n(b) regulations made in accordance with paragraph 3(1),\nhis return shall be void and his seat vacant.\n(4A) If a person who is disqualified under this paragraph for the office of MEP for a particular electoral region is returned as an MEP for that region under—\n(a) section 3, or\n(b) regulations made in accordance with paragraph 3(1),\nhis return shall be void and his seat vacant.”, and\n(d) in sub-paragraph (5), for “elected” substitute “ returned ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 10 in force at 1.5.1999; Sch. 2 para. 10 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 5; Sch. 2 para. 10 in force for certain purposes at 16.3.1999 by S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(2); Sch. 2 para. 10 in force at 1.5.1999 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (subject to art. 2(3) of the commencing S.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/1/schedule/2/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:08.979752+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."
}