{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-2/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-2/paragraph-11.json",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  "legislation_title": "European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed",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/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 6 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For sub-paragraph (1) substitute—\n“\n6 (1) Any person may apply to the court for a declaration or, as the case may be, a declarator that a person who purports to be an MEP—\n(a) is disqualified, or\n(b) was disqualified at the time when, or at some time since, he was returned as an MEP under section 3 or under regulations made in accordance with paragraph 3(1).\n(1A) The decision of the court on an application under this paragraph shall be final.”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), for “£200” substitute “ £5,000 ”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (5)—\n(a) for “constituency”, in each place, substitute “ electoral region ”, and\n(b) for “representative to” substitute “ Member of ”.\n(5) At the end insert—\n“(6) The Secretary of State may by order substitute another figure for the figure in sub-paragraph (2).\n(7) A statutory instrument made under sub-paragraph (6) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 11 in force at 1.5.1999; Sch. 2 para. 11 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 5; Sch. 2 para. 11 in force for certain purposes at 16.3.1999 by S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(2); Sch. 2 para. 11 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/11",
    "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."
}