In section 5(3) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) (“the 1994 Act”) (ordinary elections of councillors to take place every third year after 1999), for “every third year thereafter” there is substituted “thereafter in the years in which, under section 2(2) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), polls at ordinary general elections for membership of the Scottish Parliament fall to be held”.