The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/521
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and application

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on the day after that on which they are made.

(2) These Regulations apply to the holding of referendums by local authorities in England.

Section 2 Amendment of Regulations

The Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2001 are amended—

(a) in regulation 10 (postal ballots and postal votes)—

(i) in paragraph (2), by the substitution, for “A”, of “Subject to paragraph (2A), a”; and

(ii) by the insertion, after paragraph (2), of the following paragraph—

(2A) A determination may be made under paragraph (1) where the votes at the election are to be cast only by postal ballot.

(b) in Schedule 3 (application, with modifications, of Acts and Statutory Instruments), in Table 1 (Representation of the People Act 2000), before the entry relating to section 12, by the insertion of the following entry —

Section 10 (pilot schemes for local elections in England and Wales)

In subsection (2)—

after “Representation of the People Acts”, insert “or the Local Government Act 2000”; and

in paragraph (c), for “candidates”, substitute “any campaign organiser within the meaning of regulations 6 and 7 of the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2001”.

In subsection (3)—

in paragraph (b), for “candidates'”, substitute “campaign organisers'”; and

for “section 75(1) of the 1983 Act (restriction on third party election expenditure)”, substitute “regulations 6 and 7 of the Local Authorities (Conduct of Referendums) (England) Regulations 2001”.

Omit subsection (4).

In subsection (7), at the end of paragraph (a), insert “or the Local Government Act 2000”.

In subsection (11), for the words after “means”, substitute “a county council, a district council or a London borough council.”