C1C2C3C4C5Part III Legal Proceedings

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. 3 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) by S.I. 1987/1, rules 2, 6 and S.I. 1986/2215, rules 2, 9 (which S.I. was revoked (2.1.2007) by S.I. 2006/3305, rule1(4), Sch. 1)

Pt. 3 applied (17.2.1994) by S.I. 1994/342, regs. 1(2)(3), 2(2), 11(2)

Pt. 3 extended (28.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/1214 reg. 5(3) (which S.I. was revoked (23.3.2004) by S.I. 2004/293, reg. 126)

Pt. 3 extended (9.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1184 reg. 7(2)

Pt. 3 extended (E.W.) (1.2.2002) by The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/185), reg. 6

C2

Pt. 3: power to apply conferred (S.) (14.9.2006) by Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 9), ss. 3(4), 17(2); S.S.I. 2006/470, art. 2

C4

Pt. 3 applied in part (with modifications) (S.) (17.2.2007 except for specified purposes) by The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/42), art. 4

General provisions as to prosecutions

177 Local election offence punishable summarily.

A prosecution for any offence punishable summarily committed in reference to an election under the local government Act—

a

may be instituted before any magistrates’ court in the county in which the local government area for which the election was held is situated or which it adjoins; and

b

the offence shall be deemed for all purposes to have been committed within the jurisdiction of that court.

This section does not apply in Scotland.