The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2007

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules—

“1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;

“1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1);

“2000 Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000(2);

“2006 Act” means the Electoral Administration Act 2006(3);

“appropriate form” means, in relation to a particular rule, the form relevant to that rule set out in the Forms Schedule or where more than one form is so set out, the form indicated by the relevant rule as being appropriate to the particular circumstances;

“Assembly constituency” means a constituency area specified in an order made under section 2(4) of the 1999 Act;

“Authority election” means an election, whether at an ordinary election or in the circumstances mentioned in sections 10, 11 or 16 of the 1999 Act (filling a vacancy in an Assembly constituency or the office of Mayor), held under—

(a)

the Constituency Members Election Rules,

(b)

the London Members Election Rules, or

(c)

the Mayoral Election Rules;

“Combination of Polls Regulations” means the Representation of the People (Combination of Polls) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004(4);

“Combined Manual Count Rules” means the Rules in Schedule 8;

“constituency member” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;

“Constituency Members Election Rules” means the Rules in Schedule 1 or 5;

“CRO” (constituency returning officer) means, in relation to an Assembly constituency and an election, the person (or person fitting the description) for the time being designated by an order under section 35(2B) of the 1983 Act;

“elector”, except where the context provides otherwise, has the same meaning as in section 202 of the 1983 Act;

“election booklet” has the same meaning as in article 7 of the Greater London Authority Elections (Election Addresses) Order 2003(5);

“electronic counting system” means such computer hardware, software and other equipment or services as may be provided by the GLRO to the CRO in accordance with the rules applying at the election, for the purpose of counting the number of ballot papers to verify the ballot paper accounts and to count the votes cast on them;

“European Parliamentary election” has the same meaning as in section 27(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985(6);

“Forms Schedule” means Schedule 10;

“GLRO” (Greater London returning officer) means the person who is for the time being the proper officer of the Greater London Authority for the purposes of section 35(2C) of the 1983 Act(7) (returning officer at the election of the Mayor and London Members);

“local authority mayoral election” means an election conducted under the Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007(8);

“London Assembly” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;

“London members” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;

“London Members Election Rules” means the Rules in Schedule 2 or 6;

“Manual Count Rules” means the Rules in Schedule 4;

“Mayor” means the Mayor of London.

“mayoral by-election” means an election for the Mayor or London held in the circumstances mentioned in section 16 (filling a vacancy in the office of Mayor) of the 1999 Act;

“mayoral election” means an election for the return of the Mayor, whether at an ordinary election or an election held in the circumstances mentioned in section 16 (filling a vacancy in the office of Mayor) of the 1999 Act;

“Mayoral Election Rules” means the Rules in Schedule 3 or 7;

“Notices Schedule “ means the rules in Schedule 9;

“referendum” means a referendum conducted under the Referendum Regulations;

“Referendum Regulations” means the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2007(9);

“relevant registration officer” means the registration officer within the meaning of subsection (3)(a) of section 44 of the 2006 Act, or appointed by an order made under subsection (3)(b) of that section;

“ward” has the same meaning as in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 to the Local Government Act 1972(10).

(2) References in these rules—

(a) to the CRO include references to any person appointed by him under subsection (4) of section 35 (returning officers: local elections in England and Wales) of the 1983 Act, and

(b) to the GLRO include references to any person appointed by him under that subsection.

(3) Other expressions used both in these Rules and in Part 1 (the Greater London Authority) of the 1999 Act have the same meaning in these Rules as they have in that Part.

(1)

1999 c.29.

(2)

2000 c.41.

(3)

2006 c.22.

(4)

S.I 2004/294, amended by S.I. 2006/3278 and S.I. 2007/1025.

(5)

S.I 2003/1907.

(6)

1985 c. 50. The definition was amended by section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58), in consequence of the European Assembly being renamed the European Parliament.

(7)

1983 c. 2. Subsection 35(2C) was inserted by paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).

(8)

SI 2007/1024.

(9)

S.I. 2007/2089.

(10)

1972 c. 70. Section 102 of the Local Government Act 1985 and section 27 of the Local Government Act 1992 amended paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2.