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

36.  In Schedule 10 (limits on controlled expenditure)—

(a) in paragraph 1 after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) Paragraphs 3 and 5 to 11 do not apply in relation to a recognised Gibraltar third party.”;

(b) in paragraph 2 after sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(3A) As respects controlled expenditure incurred in the period of four months ending with the date of the poll for an election to the European Parliament in the combined region, that region is to be regarded as part of England for the purposes of the references in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to a part or parts of the United Kingdom.”; and

(c) in paragraph 4 after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) As respects a recognised Gibraltar third party, sub-paragraph (2) shall have effect as if for paragraphs (a) to (d) there were substituted—

“(a) in relation to England, £16,000; and

(b) in relation to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, £5,000.””