C8C9 Part II The Election Campaign

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Pt. 2 (ss. 67-119) applied with modifications (E.W.) by The Parish and Community Meetings (Polls) Rules 1987 (S.I. 1987/1), Rules, 2, 6

Pt. 2 (ss. 67-119) applied with modifications (E.W.) by The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986 (S.I. 1986/2215), Rules 2, 9 (which S.I. was revoked (2.1.2007) by S.I. 2006/3305, rule 1(4), Sch. 1)

Supplemental

C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C10C11C12C13119 Computation of time for purposes of Part II.

1

Where the day or last day on which anything is required or permitted to be done by or in pursuance of this Part of this Act is any of the days mentioned in subsection (2) below—

a

the requirement or permission shall be deemed to relate to the first day thereafter which is not one of those days; and

b

in computing any period of not more than 7 days for the purposes of this Part any of the days so mentioned shall be disregarded.

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The days referred to in subsection (1) above are Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, F2Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, a bank holiday or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning F3(but, in relation to a parliamentary general election, excluding any day to which rule 2 of the parliamentary elections rules does not apply by virtue of rule 2(2A)).

3

In this section “bank holiday”, in relation to any election, means a day which is a bank holiday in the part of the United Kingdom in which the constituency or, as the case may be, electoral area is situated.