Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

27 Provisions as to date of election in fishing burghs.

Where in any burgh many local government electors are engaged in the fishing industry and often absent from home in pursuance of their occupation at the time when the annual election of town councillors is due to take place under this Act (which burgh is in this Act referred to as a "fishing burgh "), the Secretary of State, on the representation of the town council of the fishing burgh and after such inquiry, if any, as he shall deem proper, may, subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the publication of orders under this Part of this Act, make an order appointing the annual retirement and election of town councillors to take place on a day other than the first Tuesday of November to be specified in the order, not being earlier than the first Tuesday of November or later than the first Tuesday of February, and making such consequential alterations in the dates or months mentioned in this Act or the dates mentioned in any other enactment or any statutory order as appear to him to be dependent on the date of the annual election (including the date for the election of county councillors representing the fishing burgh), and thereupon the date of retirement and election and other dates as aforesaid shall be altered accordingly.