Article 6

Schedule 2 (local elections rules) to the 1986 Rules shall be amended as follows.

In rule 17(1)(a) (use of schools) of the rules in that Schedule, after the word “authority” there shall be inserted “, a grant-maintained school”.

In rule 44(1)(b) and (2)(b) (declaration of result) of those rules for the words “district in which the parish or community is situate” there shall be substituted “council of the district in which the parish is situate or the county or county borough in which the community is situate”.

In rules 46 (delivery of documents), 47(1)(a) (orders for production of documents) and 48(1) (retention and public inspection of documents) of those rules, for the words “or community is situate” there shall be substituted “is situate or the county or county borough in which the community is situate”.

In rule 48(2) and (3) for the words “district council” there shall be substituted “council referred to in paragraph (1) above”.