Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

11—(1) Elections under this Part must be by single transferable vote.N.I.

(2) A single transferable vote is a vote—

(a)capable of being given so as to indicate the voter's order of preference for the candidates; and

(b)capable of being transferred to the next choice when the vote is not needed to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes or when a prior choice is eliminated from the list of candidates because of a deficiency in the number of votes given for that person.

(3) The Department may by order make provision about elections under this Part or any matter relating to them.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 11 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2