http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/39

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/39/section/142

Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

An Act to make provision with respect to local government and the functions of local authorities; to make amendments in relation to local government finance, local authority accounts and the records of local authorities; to establish a Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority for the purposes of the Transport Act 1968; to provide for the establishment of new water and sewerage authorities; to provide for the establishment of a council to represent the interests of customers and potential customers of those new authorities; to provide for the vesting in those new authorities of the property, rights and liabilities of the Central Scotland Water Development Board and of such property, rights and liabilities of regional and islands councils as those councils have as water authorities, as providers of sewerage and in relation to dealing with the contents of sewers; to provide for the dissolution of that Board; to cancel certain obligations to contribute towards expenses which have been incurred by local authorities in making provision for sewerage or disposal of sewage in rural localities; to create an office of Principal Reporter and transfer to him the functions of reporters to children’s hearings; to establish a body to facilitate the performance by the Principal Reporter of his functions; to amend the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 in relation to children’s hearings; to amend the procedure for making byelaws under section 121 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982; to transfer to local authorities responsibility for fixing and reviewing polling districts and polling places in Parliamentary elections; to amend section 21 of the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989; to amend the law relating to roads and the placing of traffic signs on roads; to make amendments in relation to valuation and rating; to abolish the Scottish Valuation Advisory Council; to empower the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority to guarantee certain obligations; to empower local authorities to make grants to ethnic minorities; to confer on local authorities the function of promoting economic development; to provide for the establishment of area tourist boards; to make amendments in relation to lieutenancies; all as respects Scotland; and for connected purposes.

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Part IV Miscellaneous

Polling districts

142 Organisation of polling districts.

1

Section 18 of the M1Representation of the People Act 1983 (polling districts and places at parliamentary elections) shall be amended in accordance with this section.

2

In subsection (3)—

a

for the words from “returning officer’s” to “places”, where it first occurs, there shall be substituted the words “ duty of every local authority to divide their area into polling districts for the purpose of parliamentary elections for so much of any constituency as is situated in their area and to designate the polling places for those polling districts ”;

b

in paragraph (a)—

i

for the words “returning officer” there shall be substituted the words “ local authority ”;

ii

for the words “the constituency” there shall be substituted the words “ so much of the constituency as falls within their area ”; and

iii

for the word “he” there shall be substituted the words “ the local authority ”;

and

c

in paragraph (b), for the words from the beginning to “constituency”, where it last occurs, there shall be substituted the words “ each electoral ward, within the meaning of section 5 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, which is wholly or partly within so much of any constituency as falls within their area ”.

3

In subsection (5)—

a

the words “any interested authority or” and “(or in Scotland, the returning officer)” shall cease to have effect;

b

the words “or returning officer”, in both places where they occur, shall cease to have effect; and

c

in the definition of “interested authority”, sub-paragraph (iii) shall cease to have effect.

4

In subsection (6), the words “or returning officer” shall cease to have effect.