The European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 1999

Offences in connection with candidature

5.—(1) A person who makes a statement which he knows to be false in the declaration required by rule 8A(2) of the elections rules is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(2) A person who, at a general election of MEPs–

(a) consents to nomination as an individual candidate in more than one electoral region,

(b) consents to nomination as an individual candidate in an electoral region and consents to being nominated in a list submitted by a registered party, whether in that region or some other,

(c) consents to being nominated in the list submitted by more than one registered party in the same region, or

(d) consents to being nominated in the lists submitted by a registered party or parties for more than one region,

is guilty of an illegal practice.

(3) The provisions of Part III of the 1983 Act relating to the prosecution of offences, as applied by regulation 3 of and Schedule 1 to these Regulations, shall have effect in relation to an offence under this regulation as if it were an offence under that Act, as so applied.