Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 3416 (C. 129)
NATIONAL ELECTION EXPENDITURE
POLITICAL PARTIES
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006
Made
18th December 2006
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Election Publications Act 2001,( 1 ) makes the following order:
1. This Order may be cited as The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006.
2. This Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.
3. Subject to article 5, the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions is 1st January 2007—
(a) section 143 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000( 2 ) (details to appear on election material);
(b) paragraph 14 of Schedule 18 to that Act( 3 ) (replacement of section 110 of the Representation of the People Act 1983).
4. Subject to article 5, section 1(1) and (2)(a) of the Election Publications Act 2001 shall cease to have effect on 1st January 2007.
5. The provisions specified in article 3 do not have effect, and section 1(1) and (2)(a) of the Election Publications Act 2001 continues to have effect, in relation to any election for which the date of the poll specified in the notice of election issued in relation to that election is on or before 2nd May 2007.
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
18th December 2006
2001 c. 5 ; section 2 was amended by S.I. 2002/2626 and 2003/1887 .
2000 c. 41 ; section 143 was commenced on 16th February 2001 by S.I. 2001/222 , but was deemed not to have been commenced by section 1 of the Election Publications Act 2001 (c. 5) .
1983 c. 2 ; paragraph 14 of Schedule 18 was commenced on 16th February 2001 by S.I. 2001/222 , but was deemed not to have been commenced by section 1 of the Election Publications Act 2001 (c. 5) (which provided that section 110 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) was to have effect in the form in which it had effect before 16th February 2001).