C1C17C15C13C7C9C16C12C8 Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise

Annotations:

Place and manner of voting at local government elections

C2C18C5C6C10C11C1431 Polling districts and stations at local government elections.

C3C41

For elections of county councillors F1in England . . ., the county council may divide an electoral division into polling districts, and may alter any polling district, and for elections of London borough or district councillors the London borough or district council may divide the London borough or district or any ward thereof into polling districts, and may alter any polling district.

F21A

For elections of county or county borough councillors in Wales, the county or county borough council may divide an electoral F12ward into polling districts and may alter any polling district.

F31B

For any Authority elections, a London borough council or the Common Council may divide their area into polling districts and may alter any polling district.

For the purposes of this subsection the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the City.

2

In Scotland, for elections of F4local authority councillors the F5local authority may divide an electoral F6ward into polling districts and may alter any polling district, F7. . .; but in the absence of special circumstances those polling districts shall be those which were last designated for the purpose of parliamentary elections under F11section 18A above.

C33

Any power to constitute polling districts for the purpose of local government elections shall be exercised so that electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the electoral area can, in the absence of special circumstances, be allotted to a polling station within the parliamentary polling place for that district unless the parliamentary polling place is outside the electoral area.

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F96

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