The European Parliamentary Elections (Day of Election) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1822

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The European Parliamentary Elections (Day of Election) Order 1988

Made

24th October 1988

Laid before Parliament

28th October 1988

Coming into force

1st January 1989

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(1) I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Day of Election) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

2.  A general election of the United Kingdom representatives to the European Parliament shall be held on 15th June 1989.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

24th October 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 15th June 1989 as the day on which the next general election of United Kingdom representatives to the European Parliament shall be held.

(1)

1978 c. 10; the words “European Parliamentary” were substituted for the words “European Assembly” in the provision concerning the citation of this Act and the words “European Parliament” were substituted for the reference to the Assembly of the European Communities in paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to this Act by section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act on 1st July 1987.