[F1 PART VI E+WSUPPLY OF REGISTER ETC

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 6 inserted (16.10.2002) by The Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1871), regs. 2(2), 15 (with reg. 2(3))

Supply on request and specific restrictions E+W

Supply of full register etc to certain candidates and restrictions on use E+W

108.— (1) This regulation applies to a candidate at—

(a) a Parliamentary or European Parliamentary election,

(b) an election to the National Assembly of Wales,

(c) a local government election, and

(d) an election of a mayor under Part II of the Local Government Act 2000,

where any part of the area in respect of which the candidate stands for election includes the whole or part of a registration area.

(2) In this regulation “candidate” includes—

(a) a candidate at an election of a mayor under Part II of the Local Government Act 2000; and

(b) an individual candidate at a European Parliamentary election or an election in an electoral region for the National Assembly for Wales.

(3) In the case of a registered political party which submits a list of candidates at a European Parliamentary election, an election of the London members of the London Assembly or an election in an electoral region for the National Assembly for Wales, the entitlement otherwise conferred by this regulation on a candidate is conferred on the election agent of that party.

(4) For the purposes of regulation 102(1) above, the relevant part of the documents listed in that provision is so much of them as relate to the area for which the candidate is standing.

(5) No candidate or election agent to whom a copy of the register has been supplied by virtue of this regulation may—

(a) supply a copy of the full register to any person,

(b) disclose any information contained in it (that is not contained in the edited register), or

(c) make use of any such information,

other than for electoral purposes.]