C6C11C12C14C13C15C16 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (25.5.2018) by The West Suffolk (Local Government Changes) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/639), arts. 1, 20(7)
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (25.5.2018) by The East Suffolk (Local Government Changes) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/640), arts. 1, 20(7)
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (26.5.2018) by The Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (Structural Changes) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/648), arts. 1, 39(6)
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (26.5.2018) by The Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (Structural Changes) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/648), arts. 1, 24(6)
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (26.5.2018) by The Somerset West and Taunton (Local Government Changes) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/649), arts. 1, 20(7)
Pt. 1 modified (E.W.) (23.5.2019) by The Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/957), arts. 1, 18(6)
Place and manner of voting at local government elections
C1C10C2C3C7C8C931 Polling districts and stations at local government elections.
C4C51
For elections of county councillors F1in England . . ., the county council may divide an electoral division into polling districts, and may alter any polling district, and for elections of London borough or district councillors the London borough or district council may divide the London borough or district or any ward thereof into polling districts, and may alter any polling district.
F21A
For elections of county or county borough councillors in Wales, the county or county borough council may divide an electoral division into polling districts and may alter any polling district.
F31B
For any Authority elections, a London borough council or the Common Council may divide their area into polling districts and may alter any polling district.
For the purposes of this subsection the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the City.
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In Scotland, for elections of F4local authority councillors the F5local authority may divide an electoral F6ward into polling districts and may alter any polling district, F7. . .; but in the absence of special circumstances those polling districts shall be those which were last designated for the purpose of parliamentary elections under F8section 18A above.
C43
Any power to constitute polling districts for the purpose of local government elections shall be exercised so that electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the electoral area can, in the absence of special circumstances, be allotted to a polling station within the parliamentary polling place for that district unless the parliamentary polling place is outside the electoral area.
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Pt. I (ss. 1–66) modified by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), s. 2(6)