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18(1)A person is eligible to be an accredited campaigner if the person is any of the following—
(a)a registered party;
(b)an individual who is resident in the United Kingdom;
(c)an individual who is registered in an electoral register;
(d)a company incorporated in the United Kingdom or another member State that is registered under the Companies Act 2006 and carries on business in the United Kingdom;
(e)a trade union entered in the list kept under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 or the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5));
(f)a building society (within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1986);
(g)a limited liability partnership, registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, that carries on business in the United Kingdom;
(h)a friendly society registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1974, a registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 or a society registered (or deemed to be registered) under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 24 (N.I.));
(i)an unincorporated association of two or more persons that is not within any of the preceding paragraphs but carries on business or other activities wholly or mainly in the United Kingdom and whose main office is there.
(2)In this paragraph “an electoral register” means—
(a)a register of parliamentary or local government electors maintained under section 9 of the Representation of the People Act 1983,
(b)a register of relevant citizens of the European Union prepared under the European Parliamentary Elections (Franchise of Relevant Citizens of the Union) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1184), or
(c)a register of peers prepared under regulations under section 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1985.
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