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Local Electoral Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions

154: Transitional provisions relating to returning officers

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You are a returning officer for a local authority. If this Act starts, you become the electoral officer for that local authority without needing another appointment. You must complete a declaration as soon as possible after this section starts, even if section 14(2) says something different.

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Part 8Miscellaneous provisions

154Transitional provisions relating to returning officers

  1. Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was the returning officer for a local authority is, without further appointment, the electoral officer for that local authority.

  2. Despite section 14(2) and subsection (1), a person who becomes an electoral officer by operation of subsection (1) must complete a declaration of the appropriate kind as soon as practicable after the commencement of this section.