Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

[1969 c. 15.] Representation of the People Act 1969

20 In section 11 (election agents and polling agents), in subsection (3), at the beginning, there shall be inserted the words " Except in Scotland, " and the words " or, in Scotland, an electoral division" shall cease to have effect, and after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(3A) In Scotland, the office of the election agent for a parliamentary election shall be within the constituency or an adjoining constituency or in a district which is partly comprised in or adjoins the constituency, and that of a sub-agent shall be in the area within which he is appointed to act; and the office of an election agent for a local government election shall be within the local government area, or in the constituency or one of the constituencies in which the area is comprised, or in a district which adjoins the area.”

21 (1) In section 13(1) (countermand or abandonment of poll on death of candidate), in paragraph (b), after the date " 1949 " there shall be inserted the words " or, in Scotland, of section 9 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, ".

(2) In section 13(3) (application of Schedules 2 and 3 to the Act of 1949 to documents relating to an abandoned poll), for the words " Schedules 2 and 3 " there shall be substituted the words " Schedule 2 " ; section 13(4) shall cease to have effect; and in section 13(5) the words " and rule 18 of those in Schedule 3 " shall cease to have effect.

22 In section 14 (miscellaneous amendments of elections rules), for the words " Schedules 2 and 3 " there shall be substituted the words " Schedule 2 " ; and the words " and the local elections rules " shall cease to have effect.

23 In Schedule 2 (consequential, etc. amendments of Act of 1949), in paragraph 25, sub-paragraph (1) shall cease to have effect, in sub-paragraph (2) the words "and rule 24 of the local elections rules in Schedule 3 " shall cease to have effect, and in head (b) for the words " each of those rules " there shall be substituted the words " that rule ".