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

4.  In section 28 (registration of parties)—

(a) after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) A declaration under subsection (2)(a) or (b) which specifies that the party is applying to be registered in respect of England may include a statement that the party intends to contest one or more elections to the European Parliament in the combined region.”; and

(b) in subsection (8) omit the “and” after paragraph (a) and, after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) any statement made under subsection (3A); and

(d) if the party—

(i) is established in Gibraltar (in this Act referred to as a “Gibraltar party”); and

(ii) has made a statement under subsection (3A), a notice that it is a Gibraltar party.”