SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of the Representation of the People Acts

Section 17

Preliminary

1

The Representation of the People Act 1983 shall be amended as follows.

Polling districts and stations

2

(1)     Section 31 shall be amended as follows.

(2)     After subsection (1A) there shall be inserted—

“(1B)     For any Authority elections, a London borough council or the Common Council may divide their area into polling districts and may alter any polling district.

For the purposes of this subsection the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the City.â€

Returning officers for Greater London and for Assembly constituencies

3

(1)     Section 35 shall be amended as follows.

(2)     Before subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

“(2A)     Subsections (2B) and (2C) below have effect in relation to the Greater London Authority.

(2B)     The returning officer at an election of a constituency member of the London Assembly shall be such a person, or a person of such a description, as may be designated by the Secretary of State in an order made by statutory instrument.

(2C)     The returning officer—

(a)     at any election of the Mayor of London,

(b)

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