European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004

Closing date for applications

8.—(1) An application under regulation 8(1) or (7), 10(7) or 11(4) shall be disregarded for the purposes of a particular election if it is received by the registration officer after 5 p.m. on the fourteenth day before the day of the poll at that election.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, an application under regulation 9(1) or (2), 10(7) or 11(6) or (7) shall be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5 p.m. on the fourteenth day before the day of the poll at the election for which is made.

(3) Sub-paragraph (2) above shall not apply to an application which satisfies the requirements of either sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) or sub-paragraph (8) of paragraph 6 above; and such an application shall be refused if it is received by the registration officer after 5 p.m. on the sixth day before the day of the poll at the election for which it is made.

(4) An application under—

(a)regulation 8(6)(a) by an elector to be removed from the record kept under regulation 8(5), or

(b)regulation 11(10)(a) by a proxy to be removed from the record kept under regulation 11(5),

and a notice under regulation 10(9) by an elector cancelling a proxy’s appointment shall be disregarded for the purposes of a particular election if it is received by the registration officer after 5 p.m. on the fourteenth day before the date of the poll at that election.

(5) In computing a period of days for the purposes of this regulation, Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday or a bank holiday shall be disregarded.

(6) In sub-paragraph (5) above “bank holiday” means—

(a)in relation to a general election, a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom, and

(b)in relation to a by-election, a day which is a bank holiday under that Act in Northern Ireland;

except that where, at a European Parliamentary general election, any proceedings are commenced afresh by reason of a candidate’s death, paragraph (b), not (a), shall apply.