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296 Application of Rules to Scotland and Ireland.

Application to Scotland

43. These rule shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications, namely:—

The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board:

The provision for the transmission of a copy of the register to the Local Government Board shall not apply:

Rule 2 shall apply as if after the words "in separate divisions" there were inserted the words "or otherwise to distinguish":

For the reference to section twenty-four of the, there shall be substituted a reference to section twenty-nine of the.

Application to Ireland.

44. These rules shall apply to Ireland subject to the following modifications, namely:—

(1) References to the Local Government Board shall be construed as references to the Local Government Board for Ireland.

(2) The district electoral division as constituted under the, shall be the registration unit; but (a) where a district electoral division is divided into wards, each such ward shall be treated as a separate registration unit; and

(b) where a district electoral division is situate partly in one parliamentary polling district, partly in another, or partly within and partly without any town (within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland ) Act, 1898), or ward of a borough or town, each part shall be treated as a

separate registration unit; and references to parishes or parts of parishes shall not apply.

(3) References to the autumn register shall be construed as references to the yearly register, and references to the spring register shall not apply.

(4) The expression "overseers" includes town clerks, secretaries of county councils, clerks of urban district councils, existing clerks of the union within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and collectors of poor rate.

(5) The power of the registration officer in certain cases to require the overseers to perform duties in connection with registration under this Act shall be construed in all cases as an obligation upon him to require each person holding the office of overseer to perform duties analogous to the duties which, but for the passing of this Act, would have been performed by that person by virtue of his office under the enactments relative to registration in force at the commencement of this Act, and it shall be the duty of every such person to comply with those requirements.

In order to give full effect to the foregoing provision the clerk of the crown and peace for a county borough shall, as respects any parliamentary borough for which he is registration officer, appoint the town clerk of the county borough to act as his deputy for the purposes of Rules 9 to 15 and for the purpose of publishing the lists and notices to be published under Rules 6 and 8 of this Schedule if the town clerk so desires, and any town clerk so appointed shall, for the purposes aforesaid, have the like powers and duties and be subject to the like liabilities as if he were registration officer.

Any question which may arise as to what duties are analogous duties within the meaning of the provision aforesaid shall be