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<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">shall be disregarded in computing any period of time, and</Substitution>
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</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/3/b/ii/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/3/b/ii" id="section-20-3-b-ii">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">ii</Substitution>
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<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">shall not be treated as a day for the purpose of any proceedings before the polling day.</Substitution>
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</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/4/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/4" id="section-20-4">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">4</Substitution>
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<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">If the polling day for the current election was appointed under section 2(7) of the 2011 Act, the reference to the polling day in section 1(4) of the 2011 Act is to be read, in relation to the current election, as a reference to the new polling day under subsection (3)(a).</Substitution>
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</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/5/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/5" id="section-20-5">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">5</Substitution>
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<P2para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">Section 76 of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to any candidate at the current election as if the maximum amount specified in subsection (2)(a) of that section were increased by one half.</Substitution>
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</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6" id="section-20-6">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">6</Substitution>
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<P2para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">If the proclamation summoning the new Parliament after the current election was issued before the demise, the meeting of the new Parliament shall (subject to any prorogation subsequent to the demise) take place—</Substitution>
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<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6/a/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6/a" id="section-20-6-a">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">a</Substitution>
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<P3para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">on the 14th day after the day appointed in the proclamation for the meeting, or</Substitution>
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</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6/b/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/6/b" id="section-20-6-b">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">b</Substitution>
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<P3para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">if the 14th day is not a working day, the next working day after the 14th day.</Substitution>
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</P3>
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</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/7/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/7" id="section-20-7">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">7</Substitution>
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<P2para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">If the demise occurs within the period of seven days before the day of the dissolution of a Parliament by section 3(1) of the 2011 Act, subsections (2) to (6) have effect as if the demise occurred on that day.</Substitution>
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</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/8/2011-09-15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20/8" id="section-20-8">
<Pnumber>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">8</Substitution>
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<P2para>
<Text>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">In this section “</Substitution>
<Term>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">working day</Substitution>
</Term>
<Substitution ChangeId="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e-1458674426231" CommentaryRef="key-feacd9e549c07eb56cc8c674f1fc863e">” means any day other than one to which rule 2 in Schedule 1 to the principal Act applies in relation to the current election (or would have applied had it fallen before the polling day).</Substitution>
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<CitationSubRef id="c3q254s92-00007" SectionRef="section-20" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/50/section/20">S. 20</CitationSubRef>
substituted (15.9.2011) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/14" id="c3q254s92-00008" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2011" Number="14" Title="Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011">Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
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,
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(with
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)
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