§ The returning officer at a Parliamentary election (other than a university election) shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, be:
- (1) In the case of a Parliamentary county which is coterminous with, or wholly contained in, one administrative county, the sheriff;
- (2) In the case of a Parliamentary borough which is coterminous with, or wholly contained in, a county of a city or town having a sheriff, the sheriff, and in the ease of the City of London, the sheriffs;
- (3) In the case of a Parliamentary borough which is coterminous with, or wholly contained in, one municipal borough (not being a county of a city or town having a sheriff), or one Metropolitan borough, or one urban district, the mayor or chairman of the council, as the case requires; and
- (4) In any other case, such sheriff, mayor, or chairman, as may be. designated for the purpose by the Local Government Board.
§ Lords Amendments:
§ In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "Parliamentary county," and insert instead thereof the word "constituency."—Disagreed with.
§ In Sub-section (2), leave out the words "Parliamentary borough," and insert instead thereof the word "constituency."—Disagreed with.
§ In Sub-section (3), leave out the words. "Parliamentary borough," and insert instead thereof the word "constituency"—Disagreed with.