SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts
Local elections void etc
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1
Section 39 shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1) (returning officer to order election to fill vacancy where poll countermanded or abandoned or vacancies remain unfilled) for “an election of a councillor for a local government area” there shall be substituted “
a local government election, other than an election for the return of the London members of the London Assembly,
”
.
3
In subsection (2) (election to an office under the 1972 Act not held on the appointed day etc) after “office under the M1Local Government Act 1972” there shall be inserted “
or the 1999 Act
”
.
4
In subsection (6)(a) (which permits an order under the section to make modifications to certain enactments) in sub-paragraph (ii), after “the M2Local Government Act 1972” there shall be inserted “
or the 1999 Act
”
.