- bank holiday
means a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.
- candidate
means, as the circumstances require, a candidate at any of the following— (a) an election for the return of the Mayor;
- candidate of a party
means a person—
- CMER
means the Constituency Members Election Rules;
- constituency
means an Assembly constituency;;
- constituency member
means a member for a constituency;
- CRO
means a constituency returning officer within the meaning of Part I of the 1999 Act (see section 24 of that Act and section 35(2B) of the 1983 Act);
- dual candidate
means a person— (a) whose name, subject to rule 55, falls to be notified as mentioned in subsection (6) of section 11 of the 1999 Act;
- election
means an election of a constituency member of the London Assembly;
- elector
means a person— (a) who is registered as a local government elector for any Assembly constituency in the register to be used at the election;
- electoral number
means— (a) a person’s number in that register;
- Forms Schedule
means Schedule 5 to the Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000;
- individual candidate
means a candidate other than a list candidate;
- list candidate
means a person included on a party list;
- LMER
means the London Members Election Rules;
- local count
means the count of the London votes given for a registered political party or, as the case may be, an individual candidate, at an election in an Assembly constituency;
- London vote
has the same meaning as in Part I of the 1999 Act;
- Mayor
means the Mayor of London.
- MER
means the Mayoral Election Rules,
- paragraph (1) notice
has the meaning given by rule 56(1).
- 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 the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998;
- registered political party
means a party which was registered under the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 at the time by which notice of the election is required to be published.
- the 1983 Act
means the Representation of the People Act 1983;
- the 1986 Rules
means the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules 1986;
- the 1999 Act
means the Greater London Authority Act 1999;
- the Constituency Members Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 1;
- the Forms Schedule
means Schedule 5 to the Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2000;
- the London Members Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 2;
- the Mayoral Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 3;
- the Ordinary Elections Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 4;
- the relevant figures
means—