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314 2. A reference to local government electors registered under this Act. shall, so far as local government elections and the right to vote at any such elections are concerned, be substituted for any reference in any other Act to local government electors, county electors, burgeses, parochial electors, or other persons entitled to vote at a local government election, by whatever name called, and local government electors so registered shall for all purposes, whether statutory or not, be in the same position as any such local government electors, county electors, burgesses, parochial electors, or persons.

3. A reference to the register kept in pursuance of this Act sha;; so far as it relates to parliamentary electors, be substituted for any reference in any Act to the parliamentary register of electors or to the parliamentary register or to the register of parliamentary electors or to the register of persons entitled to vote at a parliamentary clection, by whatever name called, and, so far as it relates to the local government register, shall be substituted for the local government register of electors, the burgess roll, the county register, the register of parochial electors, and for the register of persons entitled to vote at a. local government election, by whatever name called.

4. The registration officer shall be substituted for the overseers in sections eleven and twelve of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1878, and in any other enactment dealing with the duties of the overseers in connection with the registration of electors; and in sections thirty-nine, sixty-eight and sixty-nine of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, "registration officer" mean the registration officer under this Act.

5. Subsection (4) of section forty of the Local Government Act, 1888, shall have effect as if the words '"for the time being" were substituted for the words "at the passing of this Act"; and, in order to meet any difficulty (consequent on the change of boundaries under this provision) in filling casual vacancies by election in the London County Council, any such casual vacancy shall, until the first election of the whole number of councillors which takes place after the passing of this Act, be filled by means of the choice by the Council of a person to fill the vacancy, and the councillor so chosen shall hold office in such manner and in all respects as if he had been elected to fill the vacancy.

6. Sections eleven and thirteen and (so far as necessary ) section twelve of the Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act, 1978 shall be adapted so its to be applicable to parishes situated in any constituency or in any local government area, and,for that purpose "constituency" shall be substituted in those sections for "parliamentary borough," "local government area." for "municipal borough," and "registered as a local government elector" for "enrolled as a burgess."

7. The Local Government board may, by order, make such further adaptations in the provisions of any Act (including any local Act and any Act to confirm a Provisional Order and any scheme under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as amended by any subsequent Act) as may seem to them necessary to make those provisions conform with the provisions or this Act; and any order so made shall operate as if enacted in this Act.

As respects Scotland the Secretary for Scotland, and as respects Ireland the Local Government Board for Ireland, shall be substituted for the Local Government Board in this schedule.