§ 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:
1987§ "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 clay after the date of His Majesty's gracious Proclamation declaring the calling of the Parliament."
§ "14A. In an election of members to serve in a new Parliament of the United Kingdom, the day appointed by the returning officer for the poll shall in all cases be she ninth day after the day fixed for the election."
§ "61.A. The provisions of Rule sixty-one, other than those relating to the keeping open of the polls for two consecutive days, shall not apply in an election of members to serve in a new Parliament of the United Kingdom."
§ Lords Amendments:
§ Leave out the words "14 and 61," and insert instead thereof "and 14."— Agreed to.
§ Leave out paragraph 61A.—Agreed to.