The European Parliamentary Elections (Combined Region and Campaign Expenditure) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) Order 2004 No. 366

SCHEDULE Amendments to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

27.  In section 94 (limits on controlled expenditure by third parties)—

(a) after subsection (5) insert—

“(5A) Subsections (3) to (5) apply to a recognised Gibraltar third party as they apply to a third party that is not a recognised third party, subject to the following modification namely that for the purposes of those subsections any expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the recognised Gibraltar third party during the period of four months ending with the date of the poll for a general election to the European Parliament is to be disregarded.”;

(b) in subsection (10)(a), after “is” insert “(subject to subsection (11))”; and

(c) after subsection (10) insert—

“(11) As respects a recognised Gibraltar third party, the periods in relation to which paragraphs 3 and 5 to 11 of Schedule 10 impose limits—

(a) are regulated periods for the purposes of this section, but

(b) are not regulated periods for the purposes of sections 92, 93 and 96 to 99.”