The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Welsh Forms) Order 2004 No. 1234

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“community council election” means an election conducted under the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986(1);

“European Parliamentary election” shall have the same meaning as in section 27(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1985;

“mayoral election” means an election conducted under the Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2002(2);

“relevant election or referendum” means one or more of the following—

(i)

a Parliamentary election(3);

(ii)

a European Parliamentary election;

(iii)

a community council election;

(iv)

a mayoral election; and

(v)

a referendum,

the poll at which is taken together with the poll at the county or county borough election; and

“referendum” means a referendum conducted under the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (Wales) Regulations 2004(4).

(1)

S.I. 1986/2215; amended by S.I. 1987/260, 1990/157, 1995/1948, 1998/585, 1999/395, 2001/80, 2004/224 and 2004/1040.

(2)

S.I. 2002/185; amended by S.I. 2004/225.

(3)

For the definition of “Parliamentary election”, see the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), Schedule 1.

(4)

S.I. 2004/870 (W.85).