Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022

Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2)

7 In section 95 (schools and rooms for parliamentary election meetings), after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1), the writ is to be taken to have been received—

(a) in the case of a general election, on the day after the date of the dissolution of Parliament, and

(b) in the case of a by-election, on the day after the date of the warrant for the writ.”