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Scottish Local Elections Amendment Rules 1977

As Enacted Cited authorities 4 Cited in Amendments 1 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1977/120
Year1977

1977 No. 120 (S. 22)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The Scottish Local Elections Amendment Rules 1977

24thJanuary 1977

7thFebruary 1977

1stMarch 1977

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 7 and 233 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following rules:—

1. These rules may be cited as the Scottish Local Elections Amendment Rules 1977 and shall come into operation on 1st March 1977.

2. In these rules, the expression "the principal rules" means the Scottish Local Elections Rules 1974(b).

3. In rule 14(1) of the principal rules, for the words "which shall be either embossed or perforated" there shall be substituted the words "which shall perforate the ballot paper".

4. In rule 31(1)(a) of the principal rules, for the words "either embossed or perforated" there shall be substituted the words "which shall perforate the ballot paper".

Bruce Millan, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

New St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh.

24th January 1977.

(a) 1973 c. 65.

(b) S.I. 1974/82 (1974 I, p. 257).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Scottish Local Elections Rules 1974 so as to require the official mark on a ballot paper to be made by perforation.

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