§ (1) The next statutory elections of county and borough councillors, district councillors, guardians, and parish councillors shall, subject to the limitations hereinafter contained, be postponed, or, in the case of elections already postponed under the Elections and Registration Act, 1915, the Parliament and Local Elections Act, 1916, the Parliament and Local Elections Act, 1917, or the Parliament and Local Elections (No. 2) Act, 1917, further postponed, for a year; and the term of office of the existing councillors and guardians shall accordingly be extended, or further extended, by one year.
§ This provision shall apply only where the next statutory election (whether a postponed election or not) would take place before the first day of March, nineteen hundred and nineteen.
2153§ Lords Amendment: At end insert the words "in Great Britain, and before the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and nineteen, in Ireland."—Agreed to.