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, the description of which has been authorised by a certificate issued by or on behalf of the registered nominating officer of the party.
That name shall not exceed 6 words in length.
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 described in the regional ballot paper.
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 below, in relation to an election–
“registered party” and “qualifying party” means a party which was registered under Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 at the time by which the notice of election is required to be published by virtue of rule 4 above; 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 the relevant time registered in respect of Scotland in the Great Britain register maintained under that Part of that Act.