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8(1)This paragraph applies where (apart from this paragraph)—
(a)separate limits would apply as follows to campaign expenditure incurred by or on behalf of a registered party in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (as the case may be), namely—
(i)under paragraph 4 in relation to a general election to the European Parliament; and
(ii)under paragraph 5, 6 or 7 in relation to an election within that paragraph; and
(b)any part of the period which would be the relevant period for the purposes of paragraph 4 falls within any part of the period which would be the relevant period for the purposes of paragraph 5, 6 or 7.
(2)In such a case—
(a)neither paragraph 4 nor paragraph 5, 6 or 7 (as the case may be) shall apply, in connection with either of those elections, to campaign expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the party in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (as the case may be); and
(b)the limit imposed by this paragraph shall apply to it instead.
(3)The limit applying to campaign expenditure which is incurred by or on behalf of the party in the relevant period for the purposes of this paragraph in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (as the case may be) is the aggregate of—
(a)the limit which by virtue of paragraph 4 would (apart from this paragraph) apply to such expenditure incurred in that part of the United Kingdom during the relevant period for the purposes of that paragraph; and
(b)the limit which by virtue of paragraph 5, 6 or 7 would (apart from this paragraph) apply to such expenditure incurred in that part of the United Kingdom during the relevant period for the purposes of that paragraph.
(4)For the purposes of this paragraph “the relevant period” is the period which—
(a)begins with whichever is the earlier of the dates on which the periods mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) begin, and
(b)ends with whichever is the later of the dates on which those periods end.
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