Part 1: Administration and Conduct of Elections Undue Influence Schedule 5: Undue influence: Further Provision
Schedule 5 contains a number of amendments. The effect of existing legislation (as amended by this Schedule) is that any incapacity arising from a person being reported by an election court as personally guilty of or arising from a person being convicted of, the modernised corrupt practice of undue influence as provided by new section 114A RPA 1983 (as inserted by section 8 of this Act), makes that person incapable of being elected to any of the following elective offices:
Member of the House of Commons;
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly;
Member of a local authority in England or Northern Ireland;
Elected mayor of a local authority in England;
Mayor for a combined authority in England;
Mayor of London;
Member of the London Assembly;
Police and crime commissioner.
	Paragraphs 1 and 2 amend the Local Government Act 1972. The effect of these amendments is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding the office of a member of a local authority in England where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in:
section 114A RPA 1983 as applied by Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 in relation to an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the ELA (NI) 1962 in respect of a district council election in Northern Ireland.
	Paragraph 3 amends the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The effect of this amendment is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding the office of a member of a district council in Northern Ireland where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in:
section 114A RPA 1983, and also that section as applied by Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 in relation to an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
article 69 of the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 in relation to a police and crime commissioner election;
regulation 136 of the Recall of MPs Act 2015 (Recall Petition) Regulations 2016 in relation to a recall petition;
	Paragraph 4 amends the RPA 1983. The effect of these amendments is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding a seat in the House of Commons where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the ELA (NI) 1962 in respect of a district council election in Northern Ireland.
	Paragraph 5 amends the Greater London Authority Act 1999. The effect of this amendment is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding the office of a member of the London Assembly or the Mayor of London where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in:
section 114A RPA 1983 as applied by Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 in relation to an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the ELA (NI) 1962 in respect of a district council election in Northern Ireland.
	Paragraph 6 amends the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. The effect of this amendment is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding the office of a mayor of a combined authority in England where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in:
section 114A RPA 1983 as applied by Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 in relation to an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the ELA (NI) 1962 in respect of a district council election in Northern Ireland.
	Paragraph 7 amends the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011. The effect of this amendment is that a person is disqualified from being elected to or holding the office of a police and crime commissioner in England and Wales where that person has been reported by an election court as personally guilty of, or is convicted of, the corrupt practice of undue influence set out in:
section 114A RPA 1983 as applied by Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) Order 2001 in relation to an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the ELA (NI) 1962 in respect of a district council election in Northern Ireland.