Introductory Text
PART I GENERAL
1.Citation, commencement and revocation
2.Interpretation
PART II ASSEMBLY FRANCHISE AND ITS EXERCISE
3.Voting at Assembly elections
4.Registers of electors etc
5.Registration appeals
6.Polling districts and places at Assembly elections
7.Manner of voting at Assembly elections
8.Absent vote at Assembly elections for a particular or an indefinite period
9.Absent vote at a particular Assembly election
10.Absent voters list at Assembly elections
11.Proxies at Assembly elections
12.Voting as proxy at Assembly elections
13.Offences
14.Absent voting at Assembly elections: miscellaneous
15.Combination of polls at Assembly and local government elections
16.Conduct of Assembly elections etc
17.Returning officers
18.Officers of councils to be placed at disposal of returning officers
19.Returning officers: discharge of functions
20.Returning officers: general
21.Payments by and to returning officer
22.Taxation of returning officer’s account
23.Loan of equipment for Assembly elections
24.Effect of registers
25.Effect of misdescription
26.Discharge of registration duties
27.Payment of expenses of registration
28.Personation
29.Other voting offences
30.Breach of official duty
31.Tampering with nomination papers, ballot papers etc
32.False statements in nomination papers etc.
33.Requirement of secrecy
34.Prohibition on publication of exit polls
PART III THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
35.Appointment of election agent
36.Nomination of sub-agent
37.Office of election agent and sub-agent
38.Effect of default in election agent’s appointment
39.Control of donations to constituency and individual candidates
40.Expenses of constituency candidate
41.Constituency and individual candidates: payment of expenses by or through election agent
42.Expenses which may be paid otherwise than by election agent
43.Expenses incurred otherwise than for election purposes
44.Constituency and individual candidates: prohibition of expenses not authorised by election agent etc
45.Constituency and individual candidates: limitation of election expenses
46.Power to vary provisions concerning election expenses
47.Time for sending in and paying claims
48.Disputed claims
49.Election agent’s claim
50.Constituency or individual candidates: return as to election expenses
51.Constituency and individual candidates: declarations as to election expenses
52.Party list candidates: declarations as to election expenses
53.Circumstances in which no return or declaration is required
54.Penalty for failure as respects return of declarations
55.Penalty for sitting or voting where no return and declarations are delivered etc
56.Authorised excuses for failures as to return and declarations
57.Court’s power to require information from election agent or sub-agent
58.Duty of appropriate returning officer to forward returns and declarations to Electoral Commission
59.Publication of time and place of inspection of returns and declarations
60.Constituency and individual candidates: inspection of returns and declarations
61.Meaning of “election expenses”
62.Incurring of election expenses for purposes of article 61
63.Property, goods, services etc provided free of charge or at a discount
64.Right to send election address post free
65.Broadcasting from outside United Kingdom
66.Broadcasting of local items during election period.
67.Imitation poll cards
68.Schools and rooms for Assembly election meetings
69.Disturbances at Assembly election meetings
70.Officials not to act for candidates
71.Illegal canvassing by police officers
72.False statements as to candidates
73.Corrupt withdrawal from candidature
74.Payments for exhibition of election notices
75.Printer’s name and address on election publications
76.Prohibition of paid canvassers
77.Providing money for illegal purposes
78.Bribery
79.Treating
80.Undue influence
81.Rights of creditors
82.Savings as to Assembly elections
83.Interpretation of Part III
84.Computation of time for purposes of Part III
PART IV LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
85.Method of questioning Assembly election
86.Presentation and service of Assembly election petition
87.Time for presentation or amendment of Assembly election petition
88.Constitution of election court and place of trial
89.Judges' expenses and reception
90.Attendance of shorthand writer
91.Security for costs
92.Petition at issue
93.List of petitions
94.Trial of petition
95.Witnesses
96.Duty to answer relevant questions
97.Expenses of witnesses
98.Conclusion of trial of Assembly election petition
99.Election court determination in respect of a constituency election etc
100.Regional election determined to be void by election court
101.Special case for determination of High Court
102.Withdrawal of petition
103.Costs of petition
104.Neglect or refusal to pay costs
105.Further provision as to costs
106.Appeals and jurisdiction
107.Report as to candidate guilty of a corrupt or illegal practice
108.Candidate reported guilty of corrupt or illegal practice
109.Persons reported personally guilty of corrupt or illegal practices
110.Persons reported personally guilty of corrupt or illegal practices at parliamentary elections or local government elections
111.Persons reported personally guilty of corrupt or illegal practices at European Parliamentary elections
112.Justice of the peace
113.Members of legal and certain other professions
114.Holder of licence or certificate under Licensing Acts
115.Avoidance of election for general corruption etc
116.Avoidance of election for employing corrupt agent
117.Votes to be struck off for corrupt or illegal practices
118.Application for relief
119.Prosecutions for corrupt practices
120.Prosecutions for illegal practices
121.Conviction of illegal practice on charge of corrupt practice etc
122.Incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice
123.Incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice at parliamentary or local government elections
124.Incapacities on conviction of corrupt or illegal practice at European Parliamentary elections
125.Mitigation and remission etc
126.Illegal payments etc
127.Time limit for prosecutions
128.Prosecution of offences committed outside the United Kingdom
129.Offences by associations
130.Evidence by certificate of holding of Assembly elections
131.Evidence by certificate of electoral registration
132.Director of Public Prosecutions
133.Rules of procedure
134.Costs
135.Service of notices
136.Interpretation of Part IV
137.Computation of time for purposes of Part IV
PART V MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
138.Advertisements
139.Assembly constituencies not wholly within a county or county borough
140.Forms: absent voting
141.Forms: general
142.Public notices, and declarations
143.Sending of applications and notices
144.Publication of documents
145.Interference with notices etc
146.Premises used for election purposes
Signature
SCHEDULES
1.
Electors lists and registers: miscellaneous and related provision.
2.
Absent voting at Assembly elections.
3.
Issue and receipt of postal ballot papers.
4.
Combination of polls.
5.
Conduct of Assembly elections and return of Assembly members.
6.
Control of donations to candidates.
7.
Returns and declarations as to election expenses.
8.
Use for Assembly election meetings of rooms in school premises and of meeting rooms.
9.
Modification of Election Petition Rules 1960.
Explanatory Note