The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000

Nomination of parties and nomination papers: list candidates

7.—(1) A registered party’s list of candidates to be London members(1) shall be in the appropriate form and that party shall be nominated by the submission of that list to the GLRO in accordance with paragraph (8) by the party’s nominating officer or a person authorised in writing by him.

(2) Each party list shall include the name by which the party wishes to be known for the purposes of the election; and that name need not be the party’s registered name but must not be such as would be likely to lead voters to associate that party with another registered party.

(3) That name shall not comprise more than six words.

(4) Each party list shall set out the full names and home addresses in full of each candidate included in that list.

(5) Each party list shall include a statement that it is issued by the nominating officer of the party or by a person authorised in writing by him.

(6) A person shall be guilty of a corrupt practice if he fraudulently purports to be authorised to make the statement required by paragraph (5) on behalf of a registered party’s nominating oficer.

(7) Each party list may be accompanied by a request made by or on behalf of the nominating officer of the party that the ballot paper shall contain against the party’s name the party’s registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems).

(8) Each party list shall be delivered at the place fixed for the purpose by the GLRO, which—

(a)in relation to the first ordinary election shall be at the offices of the person, or person of the description, designated by order under section 3(4) of the 1999 Act to be the returning officer at the election;

(b)in relation to any subsequent election, shall be at the offices of the Greater London Authority.

(9) Where a nomination paper and list of candidates are delivered in respect of the same registered party after an earlier paper and list have been so delivered, that later paper and list shall be deemed to supersede the earlier ones.

(10) In the following provisions of these Rules, unless the context indicates otherwise—

(a)any reference to a nomination paper includes a reference to a party list; and

(b)a party list shall be treated as the nomination paper of each person whose name is included in the list.