European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

Interpretation of Part 2

32.—(1) In this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“appropriate officer” means the returning officer;

“candidate” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2);

“committee room” does not include any house or room occupied by a candidate as a dwelling, by reason only of the candidate transacting business there with his agents in relation to the election, and no room or building shall be deemed to be a committee room by reason only of the candidate or any agent of the candidate addressing in it electors, committee members or others;

“date of the allowance of an authorised excuse” has the meaning given by regulation 50(8);

“declaration as to election expenses” means a declaration made under regulation 48;

“disputed claim” has the meaning given by regulation 45 as extended by regulation 46;

“election expenses”, in relation to a European Parliamentary election, shall be construed in accordance with regulations 55 to 57;

“money” and “pecuniary reward” shall (except in regulations 38, 71 and 72 and Schedule 4) be deemed to include—

(a)

any office, place or employment, and

(b)

any valuable security or other equivalent of money, and

(c)

any valuable consideration,

and expressions referring to money shall be construed accordingly;

“payment” includes any pecuniary or other reward;

“personal expenses” as used with respect to the expenditure of a candidate in relation to any European Parliamentary election includes the reasonable travelling expenses of the candidate, and the reasonable expenses of his living at hotels or elsewhere for the purposes of and in relation to the election;

“return as to election expenses” means a return (including the bills and receipts to be delivered with it) to be made under regulation 47(1).

(2) A person becomes a candidate at an election—

(a) on the last day for publication of the notice of the election if on or before that day he is declared by himself or by others to be a candidate at the election; and

(b) otherwise, on the day on which he is so declared by himself or by others or on which he is nominated as a candidate at the election (whichever is the earlier).