SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Election court for local election and place of trial

31(1)Section 130 shall be amended as follows.

(2)At the beginning of subsection (2)(b)(ii) (which provides that a person is not qualified to constitute an election court for the trial of a petition relating to a local government area in which he practises) there shall be inserted “except in the case of an Authority election,”.