SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 10 Limits on controlled expenditure
Part III Limits applying in special circumstances
Combination of elections to European Parliament and to devolved legislature
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1
This paragraph imposes, in the circumstances mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), a limit in relation to—
a
a general election to the European Parliament; and
b
an election to which paragraph 5, 6 or 7 would (apart from this paragraph) apply.
2
Where any part of the period which is the relevant period for the purposes of paragraph 4 in relation to a general election to the European Parliament falls within any period which is the relevant period for the purposes of any of paragraphs 5 to 7 in relation to an election to the legislature mentioned in that paragraph—
a
neither paragraph 4 nor paragraph 5, 6 or 7 (as the case may be) shall apply, in connection with either of those elections, to controlled expenditure incurred by or on behalf of a recognised third party in the part of the United Kingdom mentioned in paragraph 5(2), 6(2) or 7(2) (as the case may be); and
b
the limit imposed by this paragraph shall apply to it instead.
3
The limit applying to controlled expenditure which is incurred by or on behalf of a recognised third party in the relevant period for the purposes of this paragraph in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (as the case may be) is the aggregate of—
a
the limit which by virtue of paragraph 4 would (apart from this paragraph) apply to such expenditure incurred in that part of the United Kingdom during the relevant period for the purposes of that paragraph; and
b
the limit which by virtue of paragraph 5, 6 or 7 would (apart from this paragraph) apply to such expenditure incurred in that part of the United Kingdom during the relevant period for the purposes of that paragraph.
4
For the purposes of this paragraph “the relevant period” is the period which—
a
begins with whichever is the earlier of the dates on which the periods mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) begin, and
b
ends with whichever is the later of the dates on which those periods end.