Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to establish an Electoral Commission; to make provision about the registration and finances of political parties; to make provision about donations and expenditure for political purposes; to make provision about election and referendum campaigns and the conduct of referendums; to make provision about election petitions and other legal proceedings in connection with elections; to reduce the qualifying periods set out in sections 1 and 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1985; to make pre-consolidation amendments relating to European Parliamentary Elections; and for connected purposes.
Citation2000 c. 41
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent30 November 2000
Other legislation
Repeals/revokesRepresentation of the People Act 1991
Amended byCommunications Act 2003
Local Government Act 2003
Local Government in Scotland Act 2003
Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004
Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004
Companies Act 2006
Electoral Administration Act 2006
Government of Wales Act 2006
Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
Political Parties and Elections Act 2009
Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
Local Electoral Administration (Scotland) Act 2011
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011
Scotland Act 2012
Crime and Courts Act 2013
Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014
Wales Act 2014
Deregulation Act 2015
Recall of MPs Act 2015
Scotland Act 2016
Wales Act 2017
Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020
Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020
Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
Elections Act 2022
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets out how political parties, elections and referendums are to be regulated in the United Kingdom. It formed an important part of the constitutional reform programme implemented by the 1997 Labour Government, building on the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 (c. 48) which was passed two years earlier.