SCHEDULE U.K.Minor and consequential amendments

Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) U.K.

5 In section 28 (discharge of returning officer’s functions in England and Wales), after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) For the purposes of subsection (3), the writ is to be taken to have been received—

(a) in the case of a general election, on the day after the date of the dissolution of Parliament, and

(b) in the case of a by-election, on the day after the date of the warrant for the writ.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. para. 5 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 6(3)