Elections Bill — New Clause 2 — Permissible Donors — 17 Jan 2022 at 21:00

The majority of MPs voted not to ban political parties in the United Kingdom from accepting donations from overseas electors.

An overseas elector is a registered elector not resident in the United Kingdom.

MPs were considering the Elections Bill.^[1][2][3]

The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: Permissible donors and stated:

• (1) Section 54 (permissible donors) of PPERA is amended as follows.
• (2) In subsection (2)(a), after “register” insert “at the time at which the donation is made, but not an individual so registered as an overseas elector;

The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following statement from its proposer:

• This new clause would prevent overseas electors donating to political parties in the UK.

The clause the rejected amendment would have impacted stated the following is a permissible donor:

• an individual registered in an electoral register

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• [1] Parliament's webpage on the Elections Bill, Parliament.uk
• [2] Elections Bill as amended in Committee, 27 October 2021, Parliament.uk
• [3] Explanatory notes to the Elections Bill, 5 July 2021, Parliament.uk

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