C1C2C3C5C4C6C7C8C9 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

Annotations:

Place and manner of voting at parliamentary elections

18CAF1F2Review of polling places: Northern Ireland

1

The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland must, during each compulsory review year, carry out and complete a review under section 18B of all the polling places in Northern Ireland.

2

The compulsory review years are 2014 and every fifth year after that.

3

Subsection (1) does not prevent the Chief Electoral Officer carrying out a review under section 18B of some or all of the polling places in Northern Ireland at other times.

4

Subsection (1) does not require the Chief Electoral Officer to carry out and complete a review of all the polling places in Northern Ireland during a compulsory review year if reviews under section 18B of all those polling places are completed during the previous year.

5

Schedule A1, except paragraphs 2 and 3, has effect in relation to a review under section 18B of polling places in Northern Ireland.