Local Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2001

25.  For paragraph 8 of Schedule 8 to the 1962 Act (petition at issue) substitute:

“Petition at issue

8.— (1) The petition shall be at issue as from the relevant time, as defined by sub-paragraph (2).

(2) In this paragraph “the relevant time” means—

(a) where the petitioner gives the security for costs required by paragraph 7 by a deposit of money equal to the amount of the security so required, the time when the security is so given; and

(b) in any other case, the time when—

(i) the time prescribed for the making of objections under paragraph 7(4) expires, or

(ii) if such an objection is made, that objection is disallowed or removed,

whichever happens later.”.