European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002

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6 (1) In this Schedule—

• “general election of MEPs” means an election required to be held in the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 10(2) of the Act annexed to Council Decision 76/787;

• “pre-election year” means a year (including 2003) which immediately precedes a year in which a general election of MEPs is to be held; and

• “relevant register” means—

  (a)

  a register of parliamentary electors;

  (b)

  a register of local government electors;

  (c)

  a register of peers maintained under section 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50) (peers resident outside the United Kingdom); and

  (d)

  a register maintained under regulation 5 of the European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001/1184) (citizens of the European Union other than Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland citizens).

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 1(2) a person is an “elector”, in relation to an electoral region, if his name appears on 1st May in the pre-election year concerned in (or in any part of) a relevant register which relates to the region.

(3) In calculating the total number of electors for any electoral region—

(a) persons who are registered but have not attained the age of 18 are to be counted as electors;

(b) a citizen of the European Union (not being a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland) who is registered only for the purposes of local government elections is to be disregarded; and

(c) the Electoral Commission may assume that each relevant register is accurate and that names appearing more than once on registers (or parts of registers) which relate to an electoral region are the names of different electors.