Section 39 shall be amended as follows.

In subsection (1) (returning officer to order election to fill vacancy where poll countermanded or abandoned or vacancies remain unfilled) for “an election of a councillor for a local government area” there shall be substituted “ a local government election, other than an election for the return of the London members of the London Assembly, ”.

In subsection (2) (election to an office under the 1972 Act not held on the appointed day etc) after “office under the M1Local Government Act 1972” there shall be inserted “ or the 1999 Act ”.

In subsection (6)(a) (which permits an order under the section to make modifications to certain enactments) in sub-paragraph (ii), after “the M2Local Government Act 1972” there shall be inserted “ or the 1999 Act ”.