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The Scottish Local Government Elections Rules 2002
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Local government elections rules
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, elections of councillors for local government areas shall be conducted in accordance with the local government elections rules set out in Schedule 2 to these Rules being the parliamentary elections rules(1) in Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983(2) with adaptations, alterations and exceptions.
(2) In the application of the local government elections rules set out in Schedule 2 to these Rules to any election where the poll is taken together with the poll at another election under section 15(1) or (2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985(3) the modifications set out in Schedules 3 and 4 to these Rules shall apply.
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The parliamentary elections rules were amended, so far as is relevant, by section 19(5) of, paragraphs 4 to 7 of Schedule 2 to, paragraphs 74 to 86 of Schedule 4 to, and Schedule 5 to, the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), paragraph 6(a) of Schedule 2 to the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 (c. 48), section 38(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 22 to, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41), section 13 of, and paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 6 to, the Representation of the People Act 2000 (c. 2), and, where the poll at a parliamentary election is taken together with the poll at a local government election or a European Parliamentary election, by regulation 98 of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1111).
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