Paragraph 21

At the end of section 97 (disciplinary action on report of corrupt practice)^f1 there shall be added the following subsection:

“(4)

In respect of the report of an election court at the trial of a local election petition, subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall have effect as if for the words from ‘whether’ to ‘for Northern Ireland to’, in each place where those words occur, there were substituted ‘the court shall’.”.