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The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

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9.—(1) The poll for an election to fill a vacancy in the office of an Assembly member of the Greater London Authority returned for an Assembly constituency that, pursuant to section 10 of the 1999 Act (filling a vacancy in an Assembly constituency), would otherwise be held on a day during the relevant period is to be held instead on the ordinary day of election in 2021.

(2) The poll for an election to fill a vacancy in the office of Mayor of London that, pursuant to section 16 of the 1999 Act (filling a vacancy), would otherwise be held on a day during the relevant period is to be held instead on the ordinary day of election in 2021.

(3) If a vacancy referred to in paragraphs (1) or (2) relates to an office for which, pursuant to section 60 of the 2020 Act, an election is to be held on the ordinary day of election in 2021 the vacancy is to be filled at the ordinary election on that day and a poll is not to be held pursuant to sections 10 or 16 of the 1999 Act to fill the vacancy.

(4) In this regulation “the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1).

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