- appropriate form
means, in relation to a particular rule, the form relevant to that rule set out in the Forms Schedule or where more than one form is so set out, the form indicated by the relevant rule as being appropriate to the particular circumstances;
- Assembly constituency
means a constituency area specified in an order made under section 2(4) of the 1999 Act;
- Authority election
means an election, whether at an ordinary election or in the circumstances mentioned in sections 10, 11 or 16 of the 1999 Act (filling a vacancy in an Assembly constituency or the office of Mayor), held under— (a) the Constituency Members Election Rules, (b) the London Members Election Rules, or (c) the Mayoral Election Rules;
- bank holiday
has the meaning given in rule 4(2).
- candidate
means a candidate to be the Mayor;
- CMER
means the Constituency Members Election Rules in Schedule 5;
- Combination of Polls Regulations
means the Representation of the People (Combination of Polls) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004;
- Combined Manual Count Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 8;
- constituency member
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;
- Constituency Members Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 1 or 5;
- counting observer
has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Referendum Regulations;
- counting officer
has the same meaning as in regulation 9 of the Referendum Regulations;
- CRO
(constituency returning officer) means, in relation to an Assembly constituency and an election, the person (or person fitting the description) for the time being designated by an order under section 35(2B) of the 1983 Act;
- dual candidate
means a person– (a) whose name, subject to rule 65, falls to be notified as mentioned in subsection (6) of section 11 of the 1999 Act, and (b) who is a candidate (otherwise than at an ordinary election) for election— (i) as the Mayor of London, or (ii) as a constituency member, • “nominating officer”, in relation to a registered party and a vacancy in the office of a London member, means the person who holds that office in the party at the time at which the vacancy arises;
- election
means an election for the return of the London members;
- election booklet
has the same meaning as in article 7 of the Greater London Authority Elections (Election Addresses) Order 2003;
- elector
means a person named as a local government elector in the register being used at the election in that Assembly constituency, and includes a person shown in the register as below voting age if it appears from the register that he will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll, but does not include a person who has an anonymous entry in the register, and • “electoral number” means— (a) a person's number in that register, or (b) pending publication of the register, his number (if any) in the electors list for that register.
- electoral number
means— (a) a person's number in that register, or (b) pending publication of the register, his number (if any) in the electors list for that register.
- electronic counting system
means such computer hardware, software and other equipment or services as may be provided by the GLRO to the CRO in accordance with the rules applying at the election, for the purpose of counting the number of ballot papers to verify the ballot paper accounts and to count the votes cast on them;
- forged document
means a false document made to resemble a specified document.
- Forms Schedule
means Schedule 10;
- GLRO
(Greater London returning officer) means the person who is for the time being the proper officer of the Greater London Authority for the purposes of section 35(2C) of the 1983 Act (returning officer at the election of the Mayor and London Members);
- individual candidate
means a candidate other than a list candidate at an election for the return of London members of the London Assembly;
- list candidate
means a person included on a party list;
- LMER
means the London Members Election Rules in Schedule 6;
- local authority mayoral election
means an election conducted under the Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007;
- local count
means the count of the London votes given for a registered party or, as the case may be, an individual candidate, at an election in an Assembly constituency;
- London Assembly
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;
- London members
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the 1999 Act;
- London Members Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 2 or 6;
- London vote
has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the 1999 Act;
- Manual Count Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 4;
- Mayor
means the Mayor of London. • “mayoral by-election” means an election for the Mayor or London held in the circumstances mentioned in section 16 (filling a vacancy in the office of Mayor) of the 1999 Act;
- mayoral by-election
means an election for the Mayor or London held in the circumstances mentioned in section 16 (filling a vacancy in the office of Mayor) of the 1999 Act;
- mayoral election
means an election for the return of the Mayor, whether at an ordinary election or an election held in the circumstances mentioned in section 16 (filling a vacancy in the office of Mayor) of the 1999 Act;
- Mayoral Election Rules
means the Rules in Schedule 3 or 7;
- MER
means the Mayoral Election Rules in Schedule 7;
- nomination paper
includes a reference to—
- nomination paper of a registered party
includes a reference to a party list.
- paragraph (1) notice
has the meaning given by rule 65(1).
- party list
means a list delivered to the GLRO in accordance with paragraph 5 (party lists and individual candidates) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Act on behalf of a party registered under Part 2 (registration of political parties) of the 2000 Act;
- petition organiser
has the same meaning as in regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Referendums) (Petitions and Directions) (England) Regulations 2000;
- polling observer
has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Referendum Regulations;
- polling station in the appropriate area
means a polling station—
- referendum
means a referendum conducted under the Referendum Regulations;
- Referendum Regulations
means the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2007;
- registered party
means a party which was registered under Part 2 of the 2000 Act on the day (“the relevant day”) which is two days before the last day for the delivery of nomination papers at that election,
- relevant area
means— (a) in relation to a home address in England— (a) if the address is within a district for which there is a district council, that district;
- relevant election or referendum
means one or more of the following— (a) a Parliamentary election, (b)................................
- relevant identification information
means—
- relevant persons
means persons who find it difficult or impossible to vote in that manner because of—
- relevant registration officer
means the registration officer within the meaning of subsection (3)(a) of section 44 of the 2006 Act, or appointed by an order made under subsection (3)(b) of that section;
- temporary electoral identity document
has the same meaning as in regulation 3(1) of the Voter Identification Regulations 2022;
- the data protection legislation
has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018.
- the relevant figures
means the number of votes given in each Assembly constituency for each candidate and the total number of votes given for each candidate.
- voting area
has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Referendum Regulations.
- ward
has the same meaning as in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 to the Local Government Act 1972.
- working day
means any day other than—