Electoral Funding Act 2018

For the purposes of this Act, an Assembly general election and a periodic Council election are held or are to be held concurrently if the day for the taking of the polls for each of the elections named in the writs for the elections is the same day, whether or not the taking of any such poll is adjourned.

For the purposes of this Act, where the writs for a general election for a State election are issued on different days, the day of the issue of the writs for the general election is taken to be the day on which the writ for the periodic Council election is issued.

For the purposes of this Act, where the days for the return of the writs for a general election for a State election are different, the day for the return of the writs is taken to be the day for the return of the writ for the periodic Council election.

A reference in this Act to the day for the return of a writ is a reference to the day specified in the writ as the day for the return of the writ.

A reference in this Act, in relation to a general election, to the periodic Council election is (except in so far as the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires) a reference to the periodic Council election that forms part of the general election.