The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017

Subscription of nomination paper U.K.

8.—(1) Subject to [F1 paragraph (2)], the nomination paper must be subscribed by two electors as proposer and seconder, and [F2 subscribed as assented to by that number of other electors as calculated in accordance with paragraph (1A)].

[F3 (1A) The number of other electors which must subscribe a nomination paper is—

• 2C – 2

• where C is the number of relevant constituent councils.]

(2) The subscribers referred to in paragraph (1) must include at least [F4 2] local government electors in respect of each relevant constituent council.

F5 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) Where a nomination paper has the signatures of more than the required number of persons as proposing, seconding or assenting to the nomination of a candidate, the signature or signatures (up to the required number) appearing first on the paper in each category must be taken into account to the exclusion of any others in that category.

(5) The nomination paper must give the electoral number M1 of each person subscribing it.

(6) The combined authority returning officer—

(a) must supply any elector with as many forms of nomination paper and forms of consent to nomination as may be required at the place and during the time for delivery of nomination papers, and

(b) must at any elector's request prepare a nomination paper for signature,

but it is not necessary for a nomination or consent to nomination to be on a form supplied by the combined authority returning officer.

(7) In this rule—

[F6 “elector” means a person entitled to vote as an elector at the combined authority mayoral election and who is registered in the register of local government electors on the last day for the publication of notice of the election; and includes a person then shown in the register as below voting age if (and only if) it appears from the register that the person will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll;]

[F7 “local government elector” means a person who is registered in the register of local government electors at an address within the constituent council’s area on the last day for the publication of the notice of election; and includes a person then shown in the register as below voting age if (but only if) it appears from the register that the person will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll;]

“relevant constituent council” means a district council which is a constituent council, or in the case of an area for which there is no district council, the county council.

(8) But, in this rule, “elector” does not include a person who has an anonymous entry in the register of local government electors.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 rule 8(1) substituted (temp.) (11.3.2021 until 28.2.2022) by The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/293), arts. 1(2), 5(3)(a)(i) (with art. 2)

F2 Words in Sch. 3 rule 8(1) substituted (temp.) (11.3.2021 until 28.2.2022) by The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/293), arts. 1(2), 5(3)(a)(ii) (with art. 2)

F3 Sch. 3 rule 8(1A) inserted (temp.) (11.3.2021 until 28.2.2022) by The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/293), arts. 1(2), 5(3)(b) (with art. 2)

F4 Word in Sch. 3 rule 8(2) substituted (temp.) (11.3.2021 until 28.2.2022) by The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/293), arts. 1(2), 5(3)(c) (with art. 2)

F5 Sch. 3 rule 8(3) omitted (temp.) (11.3.2021 until 28.2.2022) by virtue of The Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Coronavirus, Nomination of Candidates) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/293), arts. 1(2), 5(3)(d) (with art. 2)

F6 Words in Sch. 3 rule 8(7) substituted (10.1.2018) by The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/19), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(a) (with art. 1(3))

F7 Words in Sch. 3 rule 8(7) substituted (10.1.2018) by The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/19), arts. 1(2), 4(2)(b) (with art. 1(3))

Marginal Citations

M1 See section 9(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) for meaning of “electoral number”.