SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Timing as to local elections

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1

Section 40 shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (provision where anything required to be done by certain enactments falls at a weekend etc) after “Representation of the M1People Act 1985” there shall be inserted “ or section 3 of the 1999 Act ”.

3

In subsection (2) (day to which election is postponed treated as day of election for purposes of certain enactments) after “Local Government Act 1972” there shall be inserted “ and (in the case of an Authority election) the 1999 Act ”.