Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985

Temporary arrangements with respect to register of electors.

22.— Where, by reason of the making of an order dividing any county, county borough, borough or urban district into electoral areas (including an order made under section 14 , or pursuant to the requirements of section 20 , of this Act), or amending or modifying such a division (which order is in this section hereafter referred to as “the dividing order”), a polling district or part of a polling district is situate in an electoral area, being an electoral area specified in the dividing order and which is identical in area and name with none of the electoral areas existing immediately before the day on which the dividing order is made, the Minister may, by direction, provide for the entry of the name of that electoral area, in respect of the polling district or part of the polling district, in every register of electors and list of corrections prepared under Part II of the Electoral Act, 1963 , and published by a registration authority before the local elections next held after the making of the dividing order.