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The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004
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- 2004 No. 293
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- Regulation 74
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Details to appear on election publicationsE+W+S
74.—(1) A person shall not—
(a)print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any bill, placard or poster having reference to an election or any printed document distributed for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a registered party or an individual candidate, or
(b)post or cause to be posted any such bill, placard or poster as mentioned above, or
(c)distribute or cause to be distributed any printed document for that purpose,
unless the bill, placard, poster or document bears upon its face the name and address of the printer and publisher.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), any process for multiplying copies of a document, other than copying it by hand, shall be deemed to be printing and the expression “printer” shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a candidate or election agent acting in contravention of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an illegal practice, and any other person so acting shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(4) Where any act or omission would be lawful by reason of—
(a)the act being done in compliance with, or
(b)the omission being made in reliance on,
any provisions of the new section 110 if it were substituted for paragraphs (1) to (3) with the modification in paragraph (5), it shall be deemed to be lawful.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), the new section 110 shall be construed as if in subsection (1) for “candidate” there were substituted “individual candidate or a registered party”.
(6) In this regulation, “the new section 110” means the section 110 of the 1983 Act contained in paragraph 14 of Schedule 18 to the 2000 Act.
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