5(1)Section 37 shall be amended as follows.
(2)At the beginning there shall be inserted “(1)”.
(3)The subsection (1) so formed shall end with paragraph (b).
(4)At the beginning of the sentence following paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “(3)”.
(5)After the subsection (1) formed by sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above there shall be inserted—
“(2)As respects Authority elections, the power conferred by subsection (1)(b) above shall include power to make an order fixing a day other than the first Thursday in May as the day on which the poll is to be held at an ordinary election other than the first.”