{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000/section-158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000/section-158.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/41",
  "legislation_title": "Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/political-parties-elections-and-referendums-act-2000",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments and repeals.",
  "text": "(1) The minor and consequential amendments specified in Schedule 21 shall have effect.\n(2) The enactments specified in Schedule 22 are repealed to the extent specified.\n(3) However, none of the repeals—\n(a) of provisions of Part II (other than those relating to sections 72, 73, 79, 81, 82, 101 to 105, and 108 and Schedule 3) or III of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (election campaigns and legal proceedings in respect of elections), or\n(b) of provisions amending any of those provisions,\nhave effect in relation to local government elections in Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 158(3) inserted (S.) (20.1.2005) by Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 9), ss. 14(4), 17(2); S.S.I. 2005/588, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 158(3)(a) substituted (S.) (29.1.2007) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 28(3), 63(2); S.S.I. 2007/26, art. 2(1)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 158 wholly in force at 16.2.2001; s. 158 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 163(2); s. 158 in force at 16.2.2001 by S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 1 Pt. II)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/41/section/158",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:25.524976+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}