http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/50/section/18Representation of the People Act 1985An Act to amend the law relating to parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom and local government elections in Great Britain, to provide for combining polls taken on the same date at such elections and elections to the Assembly of the European Communities, to extend the franchise at elections to that Assembly, to amend the law relating to the effect of the demise of the Crown on the summoning and duration of a new Parliament and to repeal section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act 1918.1985-07-16texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-09-24Expert Participation2024-02-07 Representation of the People Act 1985s. 15(1)(d) (e)Scotland Act 2012s. 2(2)(b)s. 44(5)Representation of the People Act 1985s. 15(3ZA)Scotland Act 2012s. 2(4)s. 44(5) 181. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2In paragraph (b) of section 37 of that Act (power to fix alternative day as ordinary day of local elections in England and Wales by order made not later than 1st February in the year preceding the first year when the order takes effect) for the words “the first year” there shall be substituted the words “the year (or, in the case of an order affecting more than one year, the first year)”.S. 18(1) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI