13. Is there a ban on donations from any other source?
United Kingdom
'To be eligible to register to vote, a person must be: aged 16 years or over (but you cannot vote until your eighteenth birthday), and a British, Irish, EU or qualifying Commonwealth citizen' (Source: The UK Electoral Commission Website, http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-registration/who-can-register-to-vote, Published N/A, accessed 24 July 2011 )
Art 54.2, [permissible donors include] '(a) an individual registered in an electoral register;' (Source: Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act, 2000)
'A 'permissible donor' is anyone on the electoral register, companies ororganisations incorporated in the United Kingdom or in an EU member-state and carrying onbusiness in the United Kingdom, trade unions and unincorporated associations.' (p. 8) (Source: GRECO (2008) Evaluation Report on the United Kingdoms on Transparency of Party Funding (Theme II))
Art 4.1, 'A person is entitled to be registered in the register of parliamentary electors for anyconstituency or part of a constituency if on the relevant date he?(a) is resident in the constituency or that part of it;(b) is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote (age apart);(c) is either a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic ofIreland; and(d) is of voting age.' (Source: Representation of the People Act, 1983)
The definition of permissible donors exclude for example minors.
