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European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999

Schedule 3: Minor and consequential amendments

50.These amendments repeal passages in legislation which are subsumed or overtaken by the changes made by the present Act; or substitute new terminology for old (“MEP” for “representative to the European Parliament”; “electoral region” for “constituency”). The legislation amended is:

  • the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978;

  • the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979;

  • the Representation of the People Act 1985; and

  • the European Parliamentary Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Representatives) Regulations 1994 (S.I.1994/342)

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