OpenLegislation

Paragraph 6 Publication of notice of election

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The Council shall fix 30th September in an election year and, if this falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the preceding Friday as the last day on which nomination papers are to be accepted and, at least twenty-eight clear days before the day so fixed, shall cause a notice of the election to be published specifying the number of members to be elected, the place to which nomination papers are to be sent and the latest time by which they are to be accepted.

(2)

The said notice shall be in the form as nearly as may be of Form A in the Appendix to this Scheme and shall be published once in a daily newspaper circulated in each of the following places, namely, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and such other places as the Council may determine, and in such periodical journals as the Council may determine.