The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002

Publication of statement of persons and parties nominated for return as regional members

20.—(1) The regional returning officer shall prepare and publish a statement showing–

(a) the persons who have been and stand nominated as individual candidates for return as a regional member;

(b) each registered party which has been and stands nominated together with that party’s regional list;

(c) any other persons or parties who have been nominated together with the reason why they no longer stand nominated.

(2) The statement shall show the registered parties which have been and stand nominated in alphabetical order with the name of the party as given in that list and the names and home addresses of the candidates who appear on the regional list of each party as given in that list and arranged in the order in which their names appear on that list.

(3) The statement shall also show the names, addresses and descriptions of the persons nominated as individual candidates as given in their individual nomination papers.

(4) The statement shall show the names, addresses and descriptions of the persons standing nominated as individual candidates after the names of the registered parties standing nominated and the names of those individual candidates shall be arranged alphabetically in the order of their surnames and, if there are two or more of them with the same surname, of their other names.

(5) In the case of a person nominated by more than one individual nomination paper, the regional returning officer shall take the particulars required by the foregoing provisions of this paragraph from such one of the papers as the candidate (or the regional returning officer in default of the candidate) may select.

(6) In the case of a registered political party which has delivered more than one regional list for a particular region (and which stands nominated by more than one of those lists), the regional returning officer shall take the particulars required by the foregoing provisions of this rule from such one of the lists as the nominating officer of that party (or the regional returning officer in default of that officer) may select; and if any candidate is shown standing nominated by a list not so selected but is not so shown in the selected list, he shall no longer stand nominated.

(7) The regional returning officer shall send to the Electoral Commission–

(a) a copy of the statement; and

(b) in the case of each candidate standing nominated in respect of whom a certificate has been received by the returning officer in accordance with rule 8 above, a copy of that certificate as well.