A non-selective hustings is a hustings that cannot reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against particular political parties or candidates.
Spending on a non-selective hustings is not regulated.
In our view, your hustings will be non-selective if:
you have invited all the candidates or parties known to be standing in the constituency, region or other electoral area, or
you have impartial reasons for not inviting certain candidates or parties
Impartial reasons may emerge from the following considerations:
resources and other practicalities that limit the numbers of people you can invite, for example time or space
security concerns
local prominence of some parties or candidates over others
the number of elected representatives at the local or national level