§ The following provisions shall be inserted in the First Schedule to the Ballot Act, 1872, after Rules 2, 14, and 61 respectively, that is to say:—
§ "2A. In an election of members to serve in a new Parliament of the United Kingdom the day fixed by the returning officer for the election shall in all cases be the eighth day after the date of His Majesty's gracious Proclamation declaring the calling of the Parliament."