Amendments to Schedule 1 to the 2004 Regulations
21.—(1) In Schedule 1, in rule 13 (decisions as to validity of nomination papers), in paragraph (1), for “a declaration and certificate under rule 9(2) and (3)” substitute “a declaration under rule 9(4) or, as the case may be, a declaration under rule 9(4) and information under rule 9(5)”.
(2) In paragraph (3) of that rule, at the end insert—
“(c)the candidate is a relevant citizen of the Union and the returning officer has received, under rule 9A(4), information that the candidate has been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate through a relevant disqualifying decision in the Member State of which the candidate is a national.”
(3) In paragraph (5) of that rule—
(a)at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit the word “or”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (c), for “a declaration and certificate under paragraphs (2) and (3) of rule 9 have not been delivered in accordance with that rule” substitute “neither Condition A nor Condition B in rule 9 has been met in relation to that candidate”; and
(c)at the end of sub-paragraph (c) insert—
“; or
any such candidate is a relevant citizen of the Union and the returning officer has received, under rule 9A(4), information that the candidate has been deprived of the right to stand as a candidate through a relevant disqualifying decision in the Member State of which the candidate is a national,”.