SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Sub-agents

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1

Section 68 (nomination of sub-agent at parliamentary election for a county constituency) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (appointment of sub-agent for part of constituency)—

a

after “In the case of” there shall be inserted “ (a) ”;

b

after “county constituency” there shall be inserted

, or

b

an Authority election,

c

after “part of the constituency” there shall be inserted “ or electoral area ”.

3

In subsection (2) (powers, acts and defaults of the sub-agent), after “constituency”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be inserted “ or electoral area ”.

4

After subsection (4) (vacation or revocation of appointment of sub-agent) there shall be inserted—

4A

Where a registered political party submits a list of candidates to be London members of the London Assembly at an ordinary election—

a

the election agent for those candidates must, if he appoints a sub-agent for any part of the electoral area in the case of any of those candidates, appoint the same person as sub-agent for that part of the electoral area in the case of all of the candidates; and

b

any such appointment may only be revoked in respect of all of the candidates.

5

In subsection (5) (declaration to specify the part of the constituency for which the sub-agent is appointed) after “constituency” there shall be inserted “ or electoral area ”.

6

The sidenote to the section accordingly becomes “Nomination of sub-agent at parliamentary or Authority elections.”