SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 21 Minor and consequential amendments

Representation of the People Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1081) and Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1111)

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(1)

In regulation 99 of the Representation of the People Regulations 1986 and in regulation 97 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1986 (modification of provisions about expenses in the Act of 1983)—

(a)

in paragraph (1), for “subsections (3), (4), (4A), (4B), (5), (7) and (8) of section 29” substitute “ subsections (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9) and (10) of section 29 ”; and

(b)

in paragraph (3), for “the Secretary of State” substitute “ the Electoral Commission ”.

(2)

The amendments made by sub-paragraph (1) shall not be taken to prejudice the power to make regulations varying or revoking the amended provisions.