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Lamp posts are permissible locations under section 61I of Act

Parliamentary Elections (Election Advertising) Regulations 2024

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—(1) Subject to this regulation, a lamp post is a permissible location for the purposes of section 61I of the Act.(2) A lamp post is not a permissible location if it is situated within the restricted signage zone of an ordinary polling station or a special polling station.(3) A lamp post is not a permissible location if any of the following is installed on the lamp post:(a)a public sign;(b)a traffic camera or any other road or traffic infrastructure.(4) If a traditional election advertisement is publicly displayed on a lamp post by or on behalf of a candidate in an electoral division (not being a group representation constituency), the next lamp post is not a permissible location for the display of any traditional election advertisement by or on behalf of that candidate.(5) If a traditional election advertisement is publicly displayed on a lamp post by or on behalf of any, some or all of the candidates belonging to a group of candidates, the next lamp post is not a permissible location for the display of any traditional election advertisement by or on behalf of any, some or all of the candidates belonging to that group.(6) A lamp post is not a permissible location to the extent that the display of a traditional election advertisement on the lamp post would obstruct —(a)the movement of pedestrians on any footpath; or(b)the traffic view of drivers of vehicles on a road if the lamp post is situated near any traffic junction.(7) A lamp post is not a permissible location to the extent that the display of a traditional election advertisement on the lamp post would obstruct the view of —(a)any other traditional election advertisement publicly displayed by or on behalf of —(i)another candidate, not being a candidate belonging to the same group of candidates to which the firstmentioned traditional election advertisement relates; or(ii)another group of candidates;(b)any public sign; or(c)any traffic camera or any other road or traffic infrastructure.(8) In this regulation —“footpath” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Active Mobility Act 2017;“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function and includes a Town Council established by section 4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;“public sign” means any sign that is put up, under or for the purposes of any written law, by the Government or a public body, and includes a traffic sign;“restricted signage zone” has the meaning given by section 61J(2) and (3) of the Act;“road” means any public road and any other road to which the public has access;“traffic sign” includes all signals, warning sign posts, direction posts, signs, lines or other devices for the guidance or direction of persons using roads, whether they are —(a)permanently put up; or(b)temporarily put up by any Government department or public body to indicate road closure or that road work is in progress.

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