SCHEDULE 1 U.K. APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT 1983

PART 2 U.K. APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS

Effect of misdescription U.K.

8.  Section 50 of the 1983 Act applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if—

(a) the words “nomination paper,” were omitted, and

(b) for the words “and the parliamentary election rules” there were substituted “or by the European Union Referendum Act 2015 or the European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at 26.2.2016, see reg. 1