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European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 40 Cited in Amendments 65 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1999 c. 1
Year1999
  • For sections 1 to 3 of the
    • This Act makes provision for the election in the United Kingdom of Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”) .The United Kingdom shall be divided into electoral regions.England shall be divided into nine electoral regions.Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland shall each constitute a single electoral region.71 shall be elected for electoral regions in England,8 shall be elected for Scotland,5 shall be elected for Wales, and3 shall be elected for Northern Ireland.Schedule 2 (which sets out the electoral regions in England and makes provision for the number of MEPs to be elected for each region) shall have effect.The system of election in an electoral region in Great Britain shall be a regional list system complying with the following conditions.A vote may be cast for a registered party, or an individual candidate, named on the ballot paper.The first seat shall be allocated to the party or individual candidate with the greatest number of votes.The second and subsequent seats shall be allocated in the same way, except that the number of votes given to a party to which one or more seats have already been allocated shall be divided by the number of seats allocated plus one.a party to which there has already been allocated a number of seats equal to the number of names on the party’s list of candidates, andan individual candidate to whom a seat has already been allocated.Seats allocated to a party shall be filled by the persons named on the party’s list of candidates in the order in which they appear on that list.For the purposes of subsections (3) and (4) fractions shall be taken into account.“registered party” means a party registered under any enactment providing for the registration of political parties;a reference to a party’s “list of candidates” is a reference to the list submitted in accordance with regulations made as required by paragraph 2(3B) of Schedule 1.a vote is capable of being given so as to indicate the voter’s order of preference for the candidates, andwhen the vote is not required to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes, orwhen, owing to the deficiency in the number of votes given for a prior choice, that choice is eliminated from the list of candidates.Schedule 1 (which makes supplementary provision about the holding of elections, the filling of vacancies, and disqualification) shall have effect.A person shall be entitled to vote as an elector at a European Parliamentary election in an electoral region if he is within any of subsections (2) to (5) below.the address in respect of which he is registered in the relevant register of parliamentary electors is within the electoral region, orhis registration in the relevant register of parliamentary electors results from an overseas elector’s declaration which specifies an address within the electoral region.he is a peer who on the day of the poll would be entitled to vote at a local government election in an electoral area wholly or partly comprised in the electoral region, andthe address in respect of which he is registered in the relevant register of local government electors is within the electoral region.A person is within this subsection if he is entitled to vote in the electoral region by virtue of section 3(2) to (9) of the Representation of the A person is within this subsection if he is entitled to vote in the electoral region by virtue of Part III of the European Parliamentary Elections (Changes to the Subsection (1) shall have effect subject to any provision of regulations made under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 which provides for alterations made after a specified date in a register of electors to be disregarded.In subsection (3) “local government election” includes a municipal election in the City of London (that is, an election to the office of mayor, alderman, common councilman or sheriff and also the election of any officer elected by the mayor, aldermen and liverymen in common hall) .The poll at each general election of MEPs shall be held on a day appointed by order of the Secretary of State.A statutory instrument made under this section shall be laid before Parliament after being made.
  • For Schedule 2 to the
    • (1) Schedule 2 (minor and consequential amendments of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978) shall have effect.(2) Schedule 3 (other minor and consequential amendments) shall have effect.(3) The enactments and instrument listed in Schedule 4 are hereby repealed or revoked to the extent specified.
  • For section 7(1) (a) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 (expenses: Consolidated Fund) there shall be substituted—
    • charges to which persons on whom functions are conferred by regulations made by virtue of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1 are entitled by virtue of regulations under this Act, andany sums required by the Secretary of State for expenditure on the provision of training relating to functions conferred by regulations made by virtue of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 1;(1) The preceding provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.appoint different days for different purposes;include such transitional provisions and savings as the Secretary of State thinks expedient.
  • This Act may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999.
    • (Schedule 2) Electoral Regions in England Electoral regions
      (1) The electoral regions for England shall be those listed in the Table below.
      (2)
    • “(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) , a reference in the Table to a local government or administrative area is a reference to that area as it is for the time being.
    • (2) Where an area specified in column (2) of the Table is altered, the alteration shall not have effect for the purposes of this Act until the first general election of MEPs at which the poll in the United Kingdom takes place after the alteration comes into force for all other purposes.
      • Number of MEPs elected for each region
      (3) The number of MEPs elected for each electoral region in England shall be the number specified in column (3) of the Table.
      (4)
    • (1) As soon as possible after 16th February in each...
    • The electoral regions for England shall be those listed in the Table below.Subject to sub-paragraph (2) , a reference in the Table to a local government or administrative area is a reference to that area as it is for the time being.Where an area specified in column (2) of the Table is altered, the alteration shall not have effect for the purposes of this Act until the first general election of MEPs at which the poll in the United Kingdom takes place after the alteration comes into force for all other purposes.The number of MEPs elected for each electoral region in England shall be the number specified in column (3) of the Table.

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