Local Government Act 1972

8 (1) For paragraphs I to 3 of Schedule 8 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

“1 Subject to paragraph 3 below, the rules made by the Secretary of State under section 42 of the Local Government Act 1972 for the conduct of elections of councillors for local government areas shall have effect in their application to polls under section 66 of this Act subject to such adaptations, alterations exceptions as seem appropriate to the Secretary of State.

2 Subsections (1) and (3) of section 243 of the Local Government Act 1972 shall apply to the day fixed for the poll under section 66 of this Act as they have effect by virtue of paragraph 1 above and to the day or last day on which anything is required or permitted to be done by this Schedule as they apply to the day or the last day on which anything is required or permitted to be done by any provision to which the said subsection (1) applies, and references in subsections (4) and (5) of that section to any rules mentioned in subsection (2) of that section shall be construed as including references to any such rules as they have effect by virtue of paragraph 1 above.

3 The adaptations and alterations made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 1 above shall provide for the use, subject to any variations which in the circumstances appear to the Secretary of State to be appropriate, of the forms B to E in the Appendix to this Schedule, or of forms substantially to the like effect, in place of any corresponding forms required by the rules referred to in paragraph 1 above.”

(2) Paragraph 4 of that Schedule shall be omitted.

(3) In paragraph 6 of that Schedule, for the word “county”, each place where it occurs (except in passages omitted by the following provision of this sub-paragraph) there shall be substituted the word “ district ”; in sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph the words “In a county”; the words “and in a county borough divided into wards the mayor”, the words “or county borough” in the first two places where they occur, and the words from “except that” to the end of the sub-paragraph shall be omitted ; in sub-paragraph (2) the words “or county borough” and the words “or mayor”, both places where they occur, shall be omitted ; and in sub-paragraph (3) the words “or mayor” and “or county borough” shall be omitted.

(4) In paragraph 7, for the word “county” in each place where it occurs (except in the expression “county borough”) there shall be substituted the word “ district ” and the following words, in each place where they occur, shall be omitted, namely “or county borough or mayor” and “or borough”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of Sch. 25 paras. 1, 3–6, 8, 9 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.