The Greater London Authority Elections (Election Addresses) Order 2003

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2003/1907

2003 No. 1907

LONDON GOVERNMENTREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The Greater London Authority Elections (Election Addresses) Order 2003

Made 16th July 2003

Coming into force 17th July 2003

The First Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 17A of the Greater London Authority Act 19991, and having consulted the Electoral Commission2and the Mayor and the London Assembly and such other persons and bodies as he has determined to be appropriate3, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which was laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament4:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Greater London Authority Elections (Election Addresses) Order 2003 and shall come into force on the day after it is made.

S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 19835;

the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999;

“the PPER Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 20006;

“the Authority” means the Greater London Authority;

“candidate” means, unless the context otherwise requires, a person who stands nominated as a candidate for the office of Mayor at the election;

“election” means, unless the context otherwise requires, an election for the return of the Mayor at an ordinary election;

“election address” shall be construed in accordance with article 4;

“election booklet” shall be construed in accordance with article 7;

“elector” in relation to an “election”—

(i) means a person who is registered in the register of local government electors for an electoral area in Greater London on the last day permitted for publication of notice of the election7; and

(ii) includes a person then shown in any such register as below voting age if (but only if) it appears from the register that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll;

“the GLRO” means the Greater London returning officer;

“individual candidate” means a candidate other than a list candidate;

“list candidate” means a person included on a party list;

“party list” means a list submitted to the GLRO in accordance with paragraph 5 (party lists and individual candidates) of Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Act on behalf of a party registered under Part II (registration of political parties) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;

“print” means print by whatever means (and “printer” shall be construed accordingly);

“registered political party” means a party which is registered under Part II (registration of political parties) of the PPER Act at the latest time by which the notice of election is required to be published;

“universal service provider” has the same meaning as in the Postal Services Act 20008.

S-3 Mayoral candidate’s right to delivery of an election address

Mayoral candidate’s right to delivery of an election address

3. Each candidate at an election shall be entitled (subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Order) to have an election address prepared on behalf of the candidate included in an election booklet prepared by the GLRO delivered at the Authority’s expense.

S-4 Election address

Election address

4. An election address, in relation to a candidate, is a statement prepared by the candidate’s election agent which complies with the provisions of articles 5 and 6.

S-5 Contents of election addresses

Contents of election addresses

5.—(1) An election address must contain matter relating to the election only.

(2) In particular, an election address must not contain—

(a)

(a) any advertising material (other than material promoting the candidate as a candidate at the election); or

(b)

(b) any material referring to any other candidate or to a candidate for election to the Assembly; or

(c)

(c) any material appearing to the GLRO—

(i) to be included with a view to commercial gain; or

(ii) to be indecent, obscene or offensive; or

(iii) to be such that its publication or distribution would be likely to amount to the commission of an offence.

(3) An election address may include a representation of the registered emblem9, or (as the case may be) one of the registered emblems, of a registered political party, if the address is prepared on behalf of an authorised party candidate.

(4) In paragraph (3) above “authorised party candidate”, in relation to a registered political party, means a candidate who has been authorised to use the emblem in question by a certificate—

(a)

(a) issued by or on behalf of the registered nominating officer of the party, and

(b)

(b) received by the GLRO before the last time for the delivery of nomination papers for the election.

(5) An election address must—

(a)

(a) contain a statement to the effect that it has been prepared by the candidate’s election agent; and

(b)

(b) give the name and address of the election agent.

S-6 Form of election addresses

Form of election addresses

6.—(1) Subject to any requirements imposed by or under this article, the format of a candidate’s election address may be determined by the candidate (and, in particular, may consist of a combination of words, pictures and artwork).

(2) An election address must be printed on not more than two sides of A5 paper, but if such an address is printed on two sides of such paper—

(a)

(a) it must, when submitted to the GLRO for inclusion in the election booklet, be accompanied by a second version printed on a single side of such paper; and

(b)

(b) if the total number of candidates from whom election addresses have been accepted by the GLRO by the last time for the delivery of nomination papers for the election exceeds 15, the version to be included in the election booklet shall be the second version.

(3) An election address must—

(a)

(a) comply with such requirements as to typographical layout, margins and the use of colour as the GLRO may specify; and

(b)

(b) comply with such other requirements as he may specify with a view to facilitating its reproduction as a page or pages of the election booklet.

(4) An election address must, when submitted to the GLRO for inclusion in the election booklet, be accompanied—

(a)

(a) where the address is to contain a photograph of the candidate, by two identical copies of the photograph, of which one is signed on the back by the candidate; and

(b)

(b) in any case, by such copies of anything contained in the address as the GLRO may reasonably require in connection with the reproduction of the address.

S-7 The election booklet

The election booklet

7.—(1) The election booklet is a document prepared by the GLRO which contains the election addresses of all candidates who—

(a)

(a) desire their election addresses to be included in the booklet, and

(b)

(b) have submitted—

(i) those addresses, and

(ii) any additional material required under article 6(4) above,

to the GLRO by such date as he may determine.

(2) If—

(a)

(a) it appears to the GLRO that any of the requirements of articles 5 and 6 above have not been complied with in relation to an election address, or

(b)

(b) a candidate fails to make the payment required by article 10 below in respect of an election address,

the GLRO shall decline to include the address in the election booklet.

S-8 Form of election booklet

Form of election booklet

8.—(1) The order in which the candidates' election addresses appear in the election booklet shall be determined by lot drawn by the GLRO.

(2) The election booklet shall include, in addition to candidates' election addresses, a statement by the GLRO—

(a)

(a) giving the date of the election and explaining...

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