SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts
Ordinary day of local elections
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(1)
Section 37 shall be amended as follows.
(2)
At the beginning there shall be inserted “
(1)
”
.
(3)
The subsection (1) so formed shall end with paragraph (b).
(4)
At the beginning of the sentence following paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “
(3)
”
.
(5)
After the subsection (1) formed by sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above there shall be inserted—
“(2)
As respects Authority elections, the power conferred by subsection (1)(b) above shall include power to make an order fixing a day other than the first Thursday in May as the day on which the poll is to be held at an ordinary election other than the first.”