Subscription of nomination paperU.K.
8.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the nomination paper must be subscribed by two electors as proposer and seconder, and by at least ninety-eight other electors as assenting to the nomination.
(2) The subscribers referred to in paragraph (1) must include at least 10 local government electors in respect of each relevant constituent council.
(3) Where there are more than 10 relevant constituent councils, the minimum number of subscribers referred to in paragraph (1) shall be the number of relevant constituent councils multiplied by 10
(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 numberM1 of each person subscribing it.
(6) The [F1CA/CCA] 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 [F1CA/CCA] returning officer.
(7) In this rule—
[F2“elector” means a person entitled to vote as an elector at the [F3CA/CCA] 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;]
[F4“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;]
[F5“relevant constituent council”—
in relation to a combined authority, 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, and
in relation to a combined county authority, means a constituent 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
F1Word in Sch. 3 rule 8(6) substituted (7.2.2024) by The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/131), regs. 1(3), 13(6)(a)
F2Words 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))
F3Word in Sch. 3 rule 8(7) substituted (7.2.2024) by The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/131), regs. 1(3), 13(6)(b)(i)
F4Words 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))
F5Words in Sch. 3 rule 8(7) substituted (7.2.2024) by The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2017 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/131), regs. 1(3), 13(6)(b)(ii)
Marginal Citations
M1See section 9(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) for meaning of “electoral number”.