Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1)

PART 1 U.K. Voting system for parliamentary elections

The referendum U.K.

7 Interpretation U.K.

(1) In this Part—

• “the 1983 Act” means the Representation of the People Act 1983;

• “the 2000 Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;

• “Chief Counting Officer” means the Chief Counting Officer for the referendum (see section 128(2) of the 2000 Act);

• “counting officer” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1;

• “enactment” includes—

  (a)

  any provision of an Act,

  (b)

  any provision of, or of any instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament,

  (c)

  any provision of, or of any instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation, and

  (d)

  any provision of subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978);

• “the Minister” means the Lord President of the Council or the Secretary of State;

• “permitted participant” has the same meaning as in Part 7 of the 2000 Act (see section 105(1) of that Act);

• “the referendum” means the referendum under section 1;

• “referendum rules” means the rules in Part 1 of Schedule 2;

• “Regional Counting Officer” means an officer appointed under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1;

• “registration officer” has the meaning given in section 8 of the 1983 Act;

• “responsible person” has the same meaning as in Part 7 of the 2000 Act (see section 105(2) of that Act).

(2) Each of the following, as it exists on the day of the referendum, is a “voting area” for the purposes of this Part—

(a) a district in England for which there is a district council;

(b) a county in England in which there are no districts with councils;

(c) a London borough;

(d) the City of London (including the Inner and Middle Temples);

(e) the Isles of Scilly;

(f) a constituency for the National Assembly for Wales;

(g) a constituency for the Scottish Parliament;

(h) Northern Ireland.