2

A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if, in the case of a European Parliamentary election, he makes in any document in which he gives his consent to his nomination as a candidate in accordance with rule 6 of the European Parliamentary elections rules—

a

a statement of his date of birth, or

b

a statement as to his qualification for being elected at that election,

which he knows to be false in any particular.

3

For the purposes of paragraph (2), a statement as to a candidate’s qualification is a statement—

a

that he is qualified for being elected,

b

that he will be qualified for being elected, or

c

that to the best of his knowledge and belief he is not disqualified for being elected