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.