Election and appointment of first members of the Council
4.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies in relation to a commoner who is entitled to exercise rights of common over land in more than one Section.
(2) The commoner must be included on a list compiled under paragraph 2 for at least one Section in which the rights are exercisable (to be that for the Section notified by the commoner to the returning officer or, in the absence of such notification, that for such Section as the returning officer decides), and must also be included on the list for any one or more other Sections in respect of which the rights are exercisable if the commoner so wishes and has notified the returning officer accordingly, and consequently—
(a)for the purposes of an election under article 4(1)(a), the commoner is entitled to vote in the election held for each of the Sections in respect of which the commoner is listed; and
(b)for the purposes of an election under article 4(1)(b), the commoner is entitled to vote in the election held for each of the Section-Groups of which the Section in respect of which the commoner is listed forms part, and if the commoner is listed in more than one of the Sections within the same Section-Group the commoner is entitled to vote in respect of each such Section.