1 For elections of county councillors in England . . ., the county council may divide an electoral division into polling districts, and may alter any polling district, and for elections of London borough or district councillors the London borough or district council may divide the London borough or district or any ward thereof into polling districts, and may alter any polling district. 1A For elections of county or county borough councillors in Wales, the county or county borough council may divide an electoral ward into polling districts and may alter any polling district. 1B For any Authority elections, a London borough council or the Common Council may divide their area into polling districts and may alter any polling district. For the purposes of this subsection the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the City. 2 In Scotland, for elections of local authority councillors the local authority may divide an electoral ward into polling districts and may alter any polling district, . . .; but in the absence of special circumstances those polling districts shall be those which were last designated for the purpose of parliamentary elections under section 18A above. 3 Any power to constitute polling districts for the purpose of local government elections shall be exercised so that electors from any parliamentary polling district wholly or partly within the electoral area can, in the absence of special circumstances, be allotted to a polling station within the parliamentary polling place for that district unless the parliamentary polling place is outside the electoral area. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
§ RPA 1983 s. 31(untitled)
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